Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Epictetus

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

11.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

12.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

17.

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

18.

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

19.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

20.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

21.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

22.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

23.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

24.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

Confucius

26.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

27.

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

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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.

30.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

31.

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

32.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

35.

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

Clarence Darrow

36.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

39.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

41.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

42.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

43.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

44.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Russell, Utterly

48.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

49.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

50.

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

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