Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Carrel, Alexis

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

4.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

5.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

6.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

7.

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

8.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

9.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

12.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

15.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

16.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

17.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

18.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Brandes, George

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

23.

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

Truman, Harry S

24.

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

25.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

26.

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

Scott Westerfeld

27.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

28.

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

Herbert Agar

29.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

32.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

33.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

35.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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.

39.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

40.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

41.

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

Bible

42.

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.

43.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

44.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

45.

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

46.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

48.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

49.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

50.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile