Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

2.

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

Baldwin, James

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

5.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

7.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

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.

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

18.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

22.

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

Emre, Yumus

23.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

24.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

Pindar

27.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

28.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

29.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

30.

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

Valery, Paul

31.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

36.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

37.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

38.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

39.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

40.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

41.

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.

42.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

43.

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

44.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

47.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.