Motivational Quotes

Truth

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

4.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

5.

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

Rosten, Leo

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

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.

8.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

9.

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

10.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

13.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

15.

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

Kahlil Gibran

16.

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

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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

Whately, Richard

21.

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

Darrow, Clarence

22.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

23.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Hare, J. C.

25.

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

26.

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

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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.

28.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

Merzel, David

30.

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

Valery, Paul

31.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.