Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

4.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

5.

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

6.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

7.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

8.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

9.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

10.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

15.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

16.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

17.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Confucius

21.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

22.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

24.

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

25.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

26.

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

Hare, J. C.

27.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Bach, Richard

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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)

33.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Wilder, Billy

38.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

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

Rosten, Leo

43.

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

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

47.

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

Augustine, St.

48.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.