Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Strachey, Lionel

2.

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

3.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

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

5.

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

Rosten, Leo

6.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

7.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

8.

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

Wilder, Billy

9.

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

Herbert, Frank

10.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

11.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

12.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

13.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

15.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

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

25.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

29.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

30.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

31.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

32.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

33.

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

Cronkite, Walter

34.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

36.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

37.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

38.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

39.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

40.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

41.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

42.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Gide, Andre

46.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

47.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

49.

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

Malcolm X

50.

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