Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

2.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

3.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

4.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

5.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

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.

8.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

10.

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

Pindar

11.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

13.

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

Zola, Emile

14.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Berenson, Bernard

18.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

19.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

20.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

21.

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

Mark Twain

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Wilder, Billy

24.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

25.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

26.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

27.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

28.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

31.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

32.

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.

33.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Lee, Bruce

37.

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

Lewis, C. S.

38.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

41.

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

Scott Westerfeld

42.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

43.

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

44.

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

Cronkite, Walter

45.

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

46.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

47.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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