Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tom Bissell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Sontag, Susan

2.

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

3.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

6.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

9.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

11.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

12.

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

Hesse, Hermann

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

17.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Penn, William

19.

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

20.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

22.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

23.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

24.

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

Herbert, Frank

25.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

26.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

28.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

29.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

30.

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

31.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

32.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

33.

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

34.

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

Whately, Richard

35.

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

Clarence Darrow

36.

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

37.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

40.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

45.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

46.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

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

Brandes, George

48.

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

49.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

50.

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

Jefferson, Thomas