Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Scott Westerfeld

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

4.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

5.

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

6.

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

Russell, Utterly

7.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

10.

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

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

15.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

20.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Pancoast, Mal

25.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

26.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

28.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

29.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Richards, R. Scott

35.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

36.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

37.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

39.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

41.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

42.

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

Barnes, Leonard

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

46.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

47.

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