Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

2.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

3.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

4.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

5.

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

6.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

7.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

8.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

9.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

11.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

12.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

13.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

15.

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

Berlin, Irving

16.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

18.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Adler, Alfred

21.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

22.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

23.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

26.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

29.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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.

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

38.

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

39.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

42.

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

Mann, Horace

43.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

44.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace