Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Mamet, David

2.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

3.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

4.

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

5.

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

Adler, Alfred

6.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

7.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

8.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

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

10.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

11.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

12.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

13.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

14.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

15.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

16.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

17.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

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

Diderot, Denis

21.

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

Malcolm X

22.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

23.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

24.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

25.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

26.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Russell, Utterly

28.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

29.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

32.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

33.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

34.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

35.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

38.

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

Berlin, Irving

39.

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

40.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

44.

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