Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

6.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

7.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

8.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

9.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

10.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

14.

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

15.

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

Pancoast, Mal

16.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

17.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

18.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

19.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

28.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

33.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

36.

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)

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Seabury, David

39.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

40.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

43.

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

Mark Twain

44.

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

45.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

47.

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

West, Jessamyn

48.

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

49.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

50.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel