Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Rostand, Jean

2.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

4.

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

5.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

6.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

7.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

8.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

13.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

19.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

20.

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

21.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

23.

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

Emre, Yumus

24.

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

Kahlil Gibran

25.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

32.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

33.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

35.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

36.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

40.

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

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

43.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

45.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Strachey, Lionel

47.

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

48.

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