Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Russell, Utterly

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

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

10.

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

Berlin, Irving

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

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.

13.

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

West, Jessamyn

14.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

17.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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.

21.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

22.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

23.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

24.

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

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

30.

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

31.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

36.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Mark Twain

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Kahlil Gibran

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav