Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

2.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

3.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

4.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

5.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

6.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

7.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

10.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

13.

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)

14.

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

Mann, Horace

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

18.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

19.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

20.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

24.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

26.

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

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

30.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

31.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

32.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

Clarence Darrow

35.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

36.

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

Scott Westerfeld

37.

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

38.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

39.

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

Kahlil Gibran

40.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

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

Russell, Utterly

42.

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

43.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

44.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

45.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

48.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

49.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

50.

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