Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

2.

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

Barnes, Leonard

3.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

4.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

5.

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

Einstein, Albert

6.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

7.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

11.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

12.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

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

15.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

16.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

18.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

19.

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.

20.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

22.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

23.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

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

Mann, Horace

28.

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

29.

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.

Rayburn, Sam

30.

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

Galileo Galilei

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

34.

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

35.

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

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

38.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

40.

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

41.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

42.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

44.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

45.

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

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.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

48.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

49.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

50.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.