Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Howard, Vernon

2.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

3.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

4.

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

5.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

18.

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.

19.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

20.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

21.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

22.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

25.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

26.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Wilder, Billy

30.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

32.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

33.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

34.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

36.

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

Emre, Yumus

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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.

40.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

41.

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

Clarence Darrow

42.

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

43.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

44.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

45.

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

Merzel, David

46.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.