Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Blake, William

2.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

3.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

5.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

6.

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

7.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

8.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

12.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

13.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

14.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

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

Scott Westerfeld

16.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

17.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

19.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

20.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

21.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

22.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

23.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

24.

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

25.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

26.

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

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

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.

29.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

30.

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

Wilder, Billy

31.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

32.

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

Herbert, Frank

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

39.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

40.

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

Hare, J. C.

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.