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.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

2.

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.

3.

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

Berenson, Bernard

4.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

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

Scott Westerfeld

6.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

7.

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

8.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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.

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

11.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

12.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

14.

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

Whately, Richard

15.

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

16.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

17.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

18.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

23.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

25.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

26.

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

27.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

28.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Berlin, Irving

30.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

31.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

35.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

36.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

37.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

38.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

41.

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

Kahlil Gibran

42.

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.

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

45.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

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

Valery, Paul

48.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.