Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

3.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

4.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

5.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

6.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

7.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

8.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

9.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

11.

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

12.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

13.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

16.

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

Lewis, C. S.

17.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

18.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

19.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

20.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

22.

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

Edith Sitwell

23.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

24.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

Mark Twain

27.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

29.

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

Sontag, Susan

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

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

32.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

33.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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

Merzel, David

35.

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

36.

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

Kersha, Al

37.

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

Rosten, Leo

38.

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

Russell, Utterly

39.

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

Brandes, George

40.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

41.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

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

Berlin, Irving

47.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.