Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Russell, Utterly

2.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

3.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

5.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

6.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

9.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

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.

13.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Kahlil Gibran

15.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

16.

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

Tomlin, Lily

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

19.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

20.

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

Adler, Alfred

21.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

22.

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

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

26.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

27.

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

28.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

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

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

34.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

37.

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

Emre, Yumus

38.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

39.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

45.

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)

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

50.

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

Hamilton, Sir William