Motivational Quotes

Truth

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

2.

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

3.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

4.

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

Strachey, Lionel

5.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

6.

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

Mann, Horace

7.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

9.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

10.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

11.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

12.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Confucius

16.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

17.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

18.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

19.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

21.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

22.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

26.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

27.

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)

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

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

Stone, W. Clement

33.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

34.

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

35.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

36.

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

Pascal, Blaise

37.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

38.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

39.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

40.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

41.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

42.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

43.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

45.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

46.

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.

47.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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