Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

2.

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

Kahlil Gibran

3.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

5.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

6.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

7.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

8.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

10.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

11.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

12.

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

Clarence Darrow

13.

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

14.

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

15.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

16.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

17.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

18.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Mamet, David

20.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

21.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

22.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

Pancoast, Mal

24.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

25.

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

26.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

29.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

30.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

31.

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

Berenson, Bernard

32.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

34.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

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

Rosten, Leo

37.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

38.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

39.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

40.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

41.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

45.

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

Gide, Andre

46.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

47.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

49.

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

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin