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.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Russell, Utterly

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

7.

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

Zola, Emile

8.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

9.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Cronkite, Walter

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

17.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

19.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

21.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

22.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

23.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

24.

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

25.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

Berlin, Irving

27.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

28.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

30.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

Hesse, Hermann

35.

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

36.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.