Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

3.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

4.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

6.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

7.

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

Herbert Agar

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

10.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

11.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

18.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

19.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

21.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

22.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

23.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

24.

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

Barnes, Leonard

25.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

26.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

27.

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

Brandes, George

28.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Rosten, Leo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

36.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

37.

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

Herbert, Frank

38.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

41.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

42.

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

Scott Westerfeld

43.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

44.

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

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

46.

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

Davies, Robertson

47.

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

Adler, Alfred

48.

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

49.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

50.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous