Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

2.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

3.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

4.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

5.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

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

Whately, Richard

8.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

9.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

10.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

11.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

13.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

14.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

15.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

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

Howard, Vernon

20.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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)

24.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

26.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

27.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

28.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

29.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

Tom Bissell

32.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

34.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

35.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

36.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

37.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

38.

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

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

43.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

44.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

45.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

46.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

47.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

49.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

50.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee