Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Diderot, Denis

3.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

4.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Rosten, Leo

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

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

Cronkite, Walter

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

11.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

12.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

13.

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

14.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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.

18.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Rogers, Will

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

24.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

25.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

26.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

27.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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.

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

Tomlin, Lily

37.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

38.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

39.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

42.

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

43.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

44.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

45.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

46.

Truth does not contradict truth.