Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

2.

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.

3.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

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

Mamet, David

5.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

Pancoast, Mal

8.

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

Tomlin, Lily

9.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

12.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

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

15.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

16.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

21.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

23.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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)

25.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

26.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

27.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

28.

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

29.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

30.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

32.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

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

36.

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

Blake, William

37.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

39.

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

Emre, Yumus

40.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

43.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

44.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

45.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

46.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo