Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

5.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

6.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

7.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

8.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

9.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

10.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

13.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

Rosten, Leo

15.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

16.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

17.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

18.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

19.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

22.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

28.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

29.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

33.

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

34.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

36.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

37.

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

38.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

39.

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

Kersha, Al

40.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

41.

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