Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Bible

2.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

3.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

5.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

6.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

7.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

8.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

9.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

10.

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

11.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

14.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

15.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

16.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Kahlil Gibran

18.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

19.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

20.

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

Diderot, Denis

21.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

22.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

23.

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

Farnham, Eliza

24.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

25.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

31.

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

Emre, Yumus

32.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

33.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

34.

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

Pancoast, Mal

35.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

38.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

39.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

43.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

44.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

45.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

49.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

50.

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

Adler, Alfred