Motivational Quotes

Truth

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Howard, Vernon

3.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

4.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

5.

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

6.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

7.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

8.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

9.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Norris, Frank

11.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

12.

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

Wilder, Billy

13.

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

Hare, J. C.

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

18.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

19.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

20.

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

Kersha, Al

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

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

Carrel, Alexis

24.

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

Adler, Alfred

25.

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

Clarence Darrow

26.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

29.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

30.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

31.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

32.

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

33.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

34.

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

35.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

37.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

38.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

39.

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

Sontag, Susan

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

47.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

48.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

49.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

50.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles