Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Howard, Vernon

2.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

3.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

5.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

6.

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

7.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

8.

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

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

11.

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

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

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

Berlin, Irving

15.

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

16.

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

Stone, W. Clement

17.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

18.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

19.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

21.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

25.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Emre, Yumus

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Tom Bissell

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

33.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

34.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

35.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

36.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.