Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

3.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

4.

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

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

7.

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

Fuller, Thomas

8.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

9.

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

Strachey, Lionel

10.

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

Truman, Harry S

11.

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

Farnham, Eliza

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

14.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

15.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

16.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

17.

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

Howard, Vernon

18.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

25.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

27.

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

28.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Seabury, David

31.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Darrow, Clarence

33.

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.

34.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

35.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

36.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

37.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

38.

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

39.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

41.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

43.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

44.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

Lewis, C. S.

48.

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

49.

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

Hesse, Hermann

50.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel