Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

10.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

11.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

12.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

13.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Strachey, Lionel

15.

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

Truman, Harry S

16.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

Mann, Horace

18.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

19.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

20.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

21.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

23.

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.

24.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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)

28.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

29.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

32.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

33.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

35.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

36.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

37.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

39.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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.