Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

2.

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

Strachey, Lionel

3.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

4.

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

Augustine, St.

5.

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

6.

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

Edith Sitwell

7.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

8.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

11.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Wilder, Billy

13.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

14.

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

15.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

17.

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

Cronkite, Walter

18.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

19.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

20.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

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

Darrow, Clarence

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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

Herbert Agar

26.

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

27.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

28.

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

29.

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

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

31.

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.

32.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

33.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

35.

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

Adler, Alfred

36.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Lowell, James Russell

40.

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

Zola, Emile

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

43.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Emre, Yumus

48.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

49.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

50.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.