Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Camus, Albert

2.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

3.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

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

Barnes, Leonard

6.

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

Strachey, Lionel

7.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

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

10.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

13.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

14.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

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.

18.

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

Wilder, Billy

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

25.

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

Adler, Alfred

26.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

27.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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.

30.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

31.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

38.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

39.

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.

40.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

43.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

44.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

45.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

46.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

47.

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

Darrow, Clarence

48.

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

49.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

50.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.