Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

2.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

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

Bach, Richard

5.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

6.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

7.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

13.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

16.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

17.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

18.

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

Mamet, David

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

21.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

23.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

24.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

25.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

26.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

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

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

32.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

35.

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

36.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Adler, Alfred

38.

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

Brandes, George

39.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

40.

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

Penn, William

41.

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

42.

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

Norris, Frank

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

45.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

47.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

48.

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

49.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

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.