Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth alone wounds.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

3.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

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

Camus, Albert

6.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

7.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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.

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

11.

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

12.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

13.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

14.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

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

16.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

18.

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

19.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

23.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

24.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

25.

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

Herbert, Frank

26.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Barnes, Leonard

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

33.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

34.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

35.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

38.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

39.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

40.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

41.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

Norris, Frank

45.

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

46.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

47.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

48.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

49.

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

50.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld