Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

2.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

3.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

4.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

5.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

6.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

7.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

9.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

10.

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

11.

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

12.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

13.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

17.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

18.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

19.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

20.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Tom Bissell

22.

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

Kahlil Gibran

23.

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

Norris, Frank

24.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

25.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

28.

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

29.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

34.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

35.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

36.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

39.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

40.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

41.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

42.

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

Darrow, Clarence

43.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

44.

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

Bach, Richard

45.

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

46.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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