Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Renard, Jules

2.

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

Scott Westerfeld

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

5.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Sontag, Susan

8.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

9.

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

Darrow, Clarence

10.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Rogers, Will

14.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

16.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

17.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

18.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Kahlil Gibran

20.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

24.

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

Bach, Richard

25.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

26.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

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

Galileo Galilei

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

31.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

32.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

34.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

35.

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.

36.

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

West, Jessamyn

37.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

38.

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

Wilder, Billy

39.

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

40.

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

Carrel, Alexis

41.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

42.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Richards, R. Scott

44.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

45.

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

46.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

48.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

49.

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