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.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

2.

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

3.

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)

4.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

7.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

9.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

10.

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

11.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

12.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

14.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

16.

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

Mamet, David

17.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

18.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

19.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

20.

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

Lee, Bruce

21.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

24.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

25.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

26.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

27.

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

28.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

29.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

30.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

31.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

33.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

Adler, Alfred

35.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

36.

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.

37.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

38.

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

39.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

40.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Herbert, Frank

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

44.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

50.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.