Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Walters, Hellmut

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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)

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

10.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

12.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Malcolm X

16.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

17.

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.

18.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

19.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

21.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

22.

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)

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

24.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

25.

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

Herbert, Frank

26.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

29.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

30.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Bible

33.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

Lee, Bruce

35.

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

Farnham, Eliza

36.

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

Merzel, David

37.

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

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

41.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

42.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

43.

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

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

45.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.