Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

2.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

3.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

4.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

5.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

6.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

7.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

8.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

9.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

10.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

12.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

14.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

15.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

16.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

17.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

18.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

19.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

21.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

22.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

23.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

25.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

26.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

27.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

28.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

29.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

31.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

32.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

33.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

36.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

38.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

39.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

42.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

43.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

44.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

45.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

46.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

47.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

48.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo