Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Mamet, David

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

4.

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

Epictetus

5.

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

Adler, Alfred

6.

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)

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.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

9.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

12.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

13.

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.

14.

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

Walters, Hellmut

15.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

19.

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

20.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

21.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

22.

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

Stone, W. Clement

23.

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

Farnham, Eliza

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.

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

Norris, Frank

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

31.

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)

32.

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

33.

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

Herbert, Frank

34.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

39.

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

42.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

43.

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

Edith Sitwell

44.

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

Seabury, David

45.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

46.

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

Pindar

47.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

50.

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