Motivational Quotes

Truth

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

2.

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

3.

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

Herbert, Frank

4.

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.

5.

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

Merzel, David

6.

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

Adler, Alfred

7.

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

Hesse, Hermann

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

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

Penn, William

10.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Emre, Yumus

14.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

15.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

16.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

18.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

19.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

20.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

21.

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

Herbert Agar

22.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

23.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

24.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

25.

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

26.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

30.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

31.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

32.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

33.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

35.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

36.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

37.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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.

41.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

44.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

46.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

47.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

49.

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

Bible

50.

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