Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

2.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

3.

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)

4.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

5.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

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

Bach, Richard

8.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

9.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

10.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

11.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Lee, Bruce

13.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Walters, Hellmut

17.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

18.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

19.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hesiod

24.

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

25.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

26.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

27.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

28.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

29.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

30.

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)

31.

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

Darrow, Clarence

32.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

33.

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

Russell, Utterly

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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

Barnes, Leonard

36.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

38.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

40.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

43.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

44.

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

45.

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

Kahlil Gibran

46.

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

47.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

48.

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.

49.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

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

Jefferson, Thomas