Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

3.

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

Edith Sitwell

4.

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

Hesse, Hermann

5.

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

Russell, Utterly

6.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

7.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

8.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

9.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

10.

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

Merzel, David

11.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

12.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

13.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

18.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

Seabury, David

21.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

Adler, Alfred

27.

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

Rosten, Leo

28.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

29.

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

Brandes, George

30.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Clarence Darrow

35.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

36.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

37.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

45.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

46.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

49.

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

50.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.