Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Strachey, Lionel

2.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

3.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

4.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

5.

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

Darrow, Clarence

6.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

7.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

8.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

9.

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

Wright, Orville

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

13.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

14.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

15.

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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

21.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

22.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

23.

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

Barnes, Leonard

24.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

25.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

30.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

31.

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

32.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

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

35.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

39.

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

Hesse, Hermann

40.

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

41.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

42.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

43.

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

Tomlin, Lily

44.

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

Kahlil Gibran

45.

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

46.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

47.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig