Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Lewis, C. S.

4.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

5.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

7.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

8.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

9.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

10.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

11.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

12.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

14.

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)

15.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

19.

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

Herbert Agar

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

22.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

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.

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

27.

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.

28.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

29.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

32.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

33.

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.

34.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

35.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

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

Blake, William

37.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

40.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

41.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

42.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

45.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

46.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

47.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.