Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Lowell, James Russell

2.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

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

Herbert, Frank

5.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

7.

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

Hesiod

8.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

9.

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

10.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

12.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

14.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

16.

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

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

19.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

20.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

21.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

24.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

25.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Hesse, Hermann

27.

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

Truman, Harry S

28.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

29.

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

Walters, Hellmut

30.

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

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

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

Pindar

34.

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

Russell, Utterly

35.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

36.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

37.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

38.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

39.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

40.

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.

41.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

42.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

43.

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

44.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

45.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Strachey, Lionel

47.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

50.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.