Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

3.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

4.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

11.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

12.

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

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

15.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

16.

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.

17.

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

Clarence Darrow

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Russell, Utterly

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

22.

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

Cronkite, Walter

23.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

24.

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

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

27.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

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

Mann, Horace

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

38.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

39.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

40.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

42.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

43.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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