Motivational Quotes

Truth

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Augustine, St.

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

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

13.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

14.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

15.

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

Richards, R. Scott

16.

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

Adler, Alfred

17.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

18.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

19.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

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

21.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

29.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

30.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

31.

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

Russell, Utterly

32.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

33.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

34.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

37.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Berlin, Irving

41.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

43.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

45.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

46.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

48.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

50.

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

Howard, Vernon