Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Penn, William

2.

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

3.

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

Barnes, Leonard

4.

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

5.

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)

6.

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

7.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

8.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

11.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

17.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

19.

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.

20.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

21.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

22.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

23.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

Hare, J. C.

25.

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

Brandes, George

26.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

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

28.

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

Herbert, Frank

29.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

30.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

32.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

33.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

34.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

35.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

36.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

37.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

40.

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

Norris, Frank

41.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

42.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

Valery, Paul

44.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

45.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Walters, Hellmut

47.

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

Seabury, David

48.

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

49.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

50.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig