Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

2.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

3.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

4.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

5.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

6.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

7.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

8.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

9.

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)

10.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

12.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

13.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

14.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

15.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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

Kahlil Gibran

19.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

21.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

22.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

23.

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

24.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

25.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

26.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

27.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

28.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

29.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

30.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

31.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

32.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

33.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

34.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

36.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

37.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

38.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

39.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.