Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Barnes, Leonard

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.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

3.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

5.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

6.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

7.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

8.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

12.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

13.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

14.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

15.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

16.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

17.

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

Lee, Bruce

18.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

21.

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

22.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

29.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

32.

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

Valery, Paul

33.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

34.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

35.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

36.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

39.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

40.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

42.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

45.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.