Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Norris, Frank

2.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

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

5.

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

Dickinson, Emily

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Carrel, Alexis

10.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

11.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

12.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Sontag, Susan

15.

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

Pindar

16.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

17.

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

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Walters, Hellmut

19.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

21.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

23.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

26.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

29.

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

Seabury, David

30.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

33.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

34.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

37.

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

38.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

39.

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.

40.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

41.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato