Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

4.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

5.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

6.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

8.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

10.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

13.

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.

14.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

16.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

19.

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

Walters, Hellmut

20.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

21.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

22.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Mamet, David

30.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

34.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

36.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

37.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Hare, J. C.

39.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

41.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

44.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

45.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

46.

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

47.

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

Scott Westerfeld

48.

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

49.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

50.

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