Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Richards, R. Scott

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Tomlin, Lily

2.

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

Scott Westerfeld

3.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

4.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

5.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

6.

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

7.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

8.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

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

Walters, Hellmut

10.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

Tom Bissell

13.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

15.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

16.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Scott Westerfeld

20.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

21.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

22.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

27.

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

Kahlil Gibran

28.

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

Russell, Utterly

29.

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

Cronkite, Walter

30.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

32.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

33.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

34.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

35.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

36.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

37.

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

Clarence Darrow

38.

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

Pascal, Blaise

39.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

45.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

46.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.