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

1.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

2.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

3.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

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

Hesiod

5.

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

Hill, Napoleon

6.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

7.

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

Darrow, Clarence

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

11.

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

12.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

15.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

16.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

19.

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

20.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

21.

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

Wilder, Billy

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)

23.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

24.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

25.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

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

Herbert, Frank

27.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

28.

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

Tomlin, Lily

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

31.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

32.

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

33.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

34.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

35.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

36.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

38.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

39.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

42.

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

Bach, Richard

43.

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

Strachey, Lionel

44.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

45.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

46.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

47.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

48.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

49.

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.

50.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright