Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Rogers, Will

2.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

3.

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.

4.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

5.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

6.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

9.

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

10.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

12.

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.

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

16.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

18.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

21.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

22.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

27.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

29.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

35.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

49.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish