Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

2.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

3.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

4.

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

Mamet, David

5.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

6.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

7.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

8.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

16.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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)

20.

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.

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

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

Adler, Alfred

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Kahlil Gibran

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Wilder, Billy

30.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

31.

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

Strachey, Lionel

32.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

33.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

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.

36.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

39.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

40.

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

41.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

42.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

43.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

44.

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

45.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

46.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

48.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple