Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

3.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

5.

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

6.

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

7.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

8.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

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

Carrel, Alexis

10.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

13.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

14.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

15.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

17.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

18.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

20.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

21.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

22.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

23.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

25.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

27.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

29.

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

Mamet, David

30.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

31.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

32.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

33.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

35.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

37.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

38.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

39.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

40.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

41.

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

Barnes, Leonard

42.

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

43.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

46.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

47.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

48.

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.

49.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon