Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

2.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

3.

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

Edith Sitwell

4.

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

Low, Albert

5.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Berlin, Irving

8.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

15.

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

Barnes, Leonard

16.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

17.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

19.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

21.

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

Richards, R. Scott

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

25.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

26.

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

27.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

28.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

29.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Hesse, Hermann

31.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

32.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

33.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

34.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

35.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

36.

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

Walters, Hellmut

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

39.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

40.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

42.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

43.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

47.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

48.

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

49.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

50.

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

Fuller, Max