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.

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

2.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

3.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

4.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

5.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

6.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

7.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

8.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

9.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

10.

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

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

14.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

15.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

16.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

17.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Adler, Alfred

19.

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

20.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

21.

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

Pindar

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

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.

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

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

32.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

33.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

34.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

35.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

36.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

37.

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

38.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

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.

41.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

42.

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)

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

44.

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.

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

47.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

48.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory