Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Walters, Hellmut

2.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

3.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

4.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

7.

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

8.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

9.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

10.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

11.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

12.

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

Mamet, David

13.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

15.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

16.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

17.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

19.

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.

20.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

21.

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.

22.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

23.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

30.

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

31.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

33.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

34.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Adler, Alfred

39.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

40.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

41.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

43.

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

Emre, Yumus

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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

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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

46.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

47.

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

Tomlin, Lily

48.

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

Dickinson, Emily

49.

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