Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Camus, Albert

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Galileo Galilei

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

11.

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

Seabury, David

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

13.

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

Hesse, Hermann

14.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

15.

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

16.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

17.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

19.

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

Richards, R. Scott

20.

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

21.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

23.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

30.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

32.

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

33.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

34.

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

35.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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