Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

2.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

3.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

4.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

5.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

8.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Hesiod

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 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.

13.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

Barnes, Leonard

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

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

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

22.

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

Wilder, Billy

23.

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

24.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

25.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

27.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

29.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

30.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

31.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

32.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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.

34.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Sontag, Susan

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

38.

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

Herbert Agar

39.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

40.

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

41.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

49.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

50.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright