Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Epictetus

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Rogers, Will

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Mamet, David

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

14.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

15.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

16.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

19.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

20.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

21.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

23.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

24.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

27.

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

Lee, Bruce

28.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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.

32.

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

Walters, Hellmut

33.

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

34.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

35.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

36.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

38.

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

Pindar

39.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

40.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

41.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

42.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Adler, Alfred

44.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

46.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

47.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

48.

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

49.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

50.

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