Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

- Tom Stoppard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Blake, William

2.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

3.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

4.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

5.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

6.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

7.

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

Strachey, Lionel

8.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

9.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

10.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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.

13.

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.

14.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

15.

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

16.

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

Adler, Alfred

17.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

22.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

25.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

27.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

28.

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

Gide, Andre

29.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

30.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

33.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

35.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

38.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

39.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

41.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

42.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X