Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Butler, Samuel

3.

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

4.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

6.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

8.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

9.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

12.

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

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 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.

15.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

16.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

17.

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

18.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

19.

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

Mann, Horace

20.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Barnes, Leonard

23.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

24.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

25.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

26.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

27.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

29.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

30.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

31.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

Hesse, Hermann

33.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

34.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

35.

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

Hare, J. C.

36.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

37.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

38.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

39.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

44.

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.

45.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

46.

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