Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

2.

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

3.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

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

6.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

7.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

8.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

Truman, Harry S

10.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

12.

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.

13.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

15.

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

16.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Walters, Hellmut

18.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Scott Westerfeld

22.

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

Barnes, Leonard

23.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

24.

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

Brandes, George

25.

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

26.

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

Mark Twain

27.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

30.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

31.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

32.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Rostand, Jean

34.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

35.

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

Bible

36.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

37.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

38.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

39.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

40.

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

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

43.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

44.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

45.

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

46.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

47.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

49.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

50.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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