Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

2.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

3.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.

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

5.

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

Lewis, C. S.

6.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

7.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

8.

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

Fuller, Thomas

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

11.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

16.

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

Mamet, David

17.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

21.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Scott Westerfeld

23.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

24.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

29.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

32.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

35.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

38.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

40.

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

Norris, Frank

41.

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

42.

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

43.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.