Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

5.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

6.

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

Bible

7.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

8.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

9.

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

Carrel, Alexis

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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

Scott Westerfeld

12.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

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

Diderot, Denis

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

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

Brandes, George

17.

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

Herbert, Frank

18.

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

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

21.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

22.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

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

Augustine, St.

25.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

31.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

32.

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

33.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

34.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

35.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

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

Strachey, Lionel

37.

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

Bach, Richard

38.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

39.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

40.

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

41.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

42.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

43.

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

Mark Twain

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

46.

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.

47.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

50.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.