Motivational Quotes

Truth

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

2.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

3.

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

Strachey, Lionel

4.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

5.

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

Kahlil Gibran

6.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

7.

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

8.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

9.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

11.

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

12.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

18.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

19.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

20.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

26.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

27.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

28.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

31.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

Confucius

35.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

36.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

38.

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

Barnes, Leonard

39.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

40.

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

Norris, Frank

41.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

43.

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

Scott Westerfeld

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

46.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.