Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Wilder, Billy

2.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

3.

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

Truman, Harry S

4.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

5.

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

Berlin, Irving

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

10.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

11.

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.

12.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

13.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

14.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

17.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

22.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

23.

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

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Herbert, Frank

27.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Norris, Frank

29.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

31.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

32.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

33.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

34.

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.

35.

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

Confucius

36.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

37.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Scott Westerfeld

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

41.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

43.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

44.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

45.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

47.

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.

48.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

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

Twain, Mark

50.

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

Butler, Samuel