Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

2.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

3.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

6.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

7.

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

8.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

9.

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

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

Mamet, David

11.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

15.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

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.

19.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

20.

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

21.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

30.

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

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

36.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

37.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

38.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles