Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Butler, Samuel

2.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

4.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

5.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

6.

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

7.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

8.

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

Bach, Richard

9.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

12.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

13.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

16.

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

17.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

18.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

19.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

20.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

Pancoast, Mal

23.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

24.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

26.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

27.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

28.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

West, Jessamyn

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

37.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

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

40.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Kahlil Gibran

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Wilder, Billy

48.

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

Stone, W. Clement

49.

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

50.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul