Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hare, J. C.

2.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

3.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

4.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

5.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

6.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

7.

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

8.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

9.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

12.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

13.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

14.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

15.

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

Norris, Frank

16.

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

Wilder, Billy

17.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

18.

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

Barnes, Leonard

19.

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

20.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

22.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

23.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

24.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

25.

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

Mamet, David

26.

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

Richards, R. Scott

27.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

30.

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

Seabury, David

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

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

Scott Westerfeld

34.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

35.

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

Davies, Robertson

36.

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

Lennon, John

37.

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

38.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

39.

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

Berenson, Bernard

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

47.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

49.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

50.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld