Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

2.

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

Rostand, Jean

3.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

4.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

5.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

6.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

7.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

8.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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.

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

16.

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

Pindar

17.

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

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

21.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

23.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

24.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

27.

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.

28.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

29.

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

Farnham, Eliza

30.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

33.

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

Mamet, David

34.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

35.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

36.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

37.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

38.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

39.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

45.

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

Balfour, Arthur James