Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Herbert, Frank

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

10.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

11.

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

Barnes, Leonard

12.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

14.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

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

Kahlil Gibran

16.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

18.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

19.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

20.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

21.

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

Tomlin, Lily

22.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Whately, Richard

24.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

30.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

36.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

37.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

38.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

41.

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.

42.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

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

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais