Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Hamilton, Sir William

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

11.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

12.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

13.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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

Pancoast, Mal

17.

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

Whately, Richard

18.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

22.

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

23.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

24.

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

25.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

28.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

29.

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

Strachey, Lionel

30.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

31.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

32.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Howard, Vernon

34.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

35.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

36.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Merzel, David

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

44.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

45.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

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

48.

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

Emre, Yumus

49.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

50.

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

Walters, Hellmut

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