Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

3.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

4.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

5.

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

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

Kersha, Al

8.

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

Russell, Utterly

9.

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

11.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

12.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

15.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

16.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

17.

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)

18.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

19.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

20.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

21.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

26.

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

Darrow, Clarence

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

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

Howard, Vernon

29.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

32.

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

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

35.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

36.

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

Hesse, Hermann

37.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

38.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

39.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

40.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

41.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

46.

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

47.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

49.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

50.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.