Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Confucius

2.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

3.

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

Mann, Horace

4.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

8.

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

Darrow, Clarence

9.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

11.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

12.

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

Davies, Robertson

13.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

14.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

15.

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.

16.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

22.

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

Kersha, Al

23.

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

24.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

30.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

31.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

36.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

38.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

40.

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

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

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

43.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Dickens, Charles

45.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

46.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

47.

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

Adler, Alfred

48.

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

49.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

50.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De