Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Truth

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)

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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)

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

10.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

13.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

14.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

15.

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

Herbert Agar

16.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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.

19.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

20.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

22.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

23.

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

24.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

25.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

26.

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

Gide, Andre

27.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

28.

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

Lee, Bruce

29.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

30.

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

31.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

33.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Bible

38.

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