Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

2.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

3.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

5.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

6.

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

7.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

8.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

9.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

16.

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

Emre, Yumus

17.

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

Rosten, Leo

18.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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.

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

24.

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

25.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

26.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

27.

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

Kahlil Gibran

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

30.

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.

31.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

33.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

Galileo Galilei

37.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

42.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

43.

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

44.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Blake, William

46.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

West, Jessamyn

48.

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