Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

2.

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

Camus, Albert

3.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

4.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

5.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

6.

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

Seabury, David

7.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

8.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

9.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

12.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

Adler, Alfred

14.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Mamet, David

16.

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

Howard, Vernon

17.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

18.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

19.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Rosten, Leo

21.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

22.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

23.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

24.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

25.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

Richards, R. Scott

27.

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

Bach, Richard

28.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

29.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

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

32.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

33.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

34.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Scott Westerfeld

37.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

38.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

39.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

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

41.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

42.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

43.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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

Scott Westerfeld

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

48.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

49.

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

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas