Motivational Quotes

Truth

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

2.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

3.

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

Emre, Yumus

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

6.

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.

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Mann, Horace

10.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

11.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

12.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

13.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

14.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

17.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

18.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

19.

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

20.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

21.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

22.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

24.

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

25.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

26.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

27.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

31.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

32.

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

33.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Pindar

35.

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

36.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

37.

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

38.

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

Mamet, David

39.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Brandes, George

41.

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

Scott Westerfeld

42.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

44.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

45.

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

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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