Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Mamet, David

2.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

3.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

5.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

6.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

7.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

8.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

9.

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

Strachey, Lionel

10.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

14.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

18.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

19.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

21.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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.

24.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

25.

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

26.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

28.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

30.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

31.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

32.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

34.

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

Confucius

35.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

36.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

37.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

38.

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

Berenson, Bernard

39.

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

40.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Walters, Hellmut

43.

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

44.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

45.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

48.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

50.

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.