Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

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

Butler, Samuel

3.

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

4.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

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

Blake, William

8.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

9.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Mamet, David

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

16.

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

17.

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

Richards, R. Scott

18.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

19.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

20.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

21.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

23.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

27.

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)

28.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.

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

Cronkite, Walter

33.

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

34.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

35.

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

Malcolm X

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

38.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

39.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

40.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

43.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

44.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

45.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

46.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

47.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

48.

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

Russell, Utterly

49.

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

Augustine, St.

50.

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