Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

2.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

3.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

7.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

8.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

9.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Lewis, C. S.

14.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

15.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

19.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

22.

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

Truman, Harry S

23.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Kahlil Gibran

28.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

29.

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

Tom Bissell

30.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

31.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

32.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

Mark Twain

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

38.

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

Barnes, Leonard

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Howard, Vernon

42.

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

Kersha, Al

43.

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

Penn, William

44.

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)

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

47.

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

48.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

49.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James