Motivational Quotes

Truth

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Scott Westerfeld

3.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

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

Emre, Yumus

6.

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

Adler, Alfred

7.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

8.

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

9.

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

10.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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.

12.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

14.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

15.

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.

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

18.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

23.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

24.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

25.

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

Pindar

26.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

27.

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)

28.

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)

29.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

30.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

31.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

33.

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

Richards, R. Scott

34.

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

Clarence Darrow

35.

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

36.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

38.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

39.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

43.

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