Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

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

3.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

5.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

6.

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

7.

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

Tom Bissell

8.

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

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

13.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

14.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

16.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

17.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

18.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

21.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

22.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

23.

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

24.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

27.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

28.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

29.

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

Diderot, Denis

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Mamet, David

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Bach, Richard

39.

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

Kahlil Gibran

40.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

41.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

42.

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

43.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

44.

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

Luther, Martin

45.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

Truth and virtue conquer.