Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Herbert Agar

2.

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

Scott Westerfeld

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

6.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

7.

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

Carrel, Alexis

8.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

9.

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

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

25.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

26.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

27.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

30.

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

Clarence Darrow

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Berenson, Bernard

33.

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

Hesse, Hermann

34.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

35.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

36.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

37.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

39.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

40.

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

41.

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

Herbert, Frank

42.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

43.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.