Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

2.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Hill, Napoleon

4.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

5.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

7.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

8.

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

Dickens, Charles

9.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

16.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

20.

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

21.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

Mann, Horace

28.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

32.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

33.

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

Russell, Utterly

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

39.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

40.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

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

Bible

42.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.