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

1.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

2.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

3.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

4.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

5.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

6.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

7.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

8.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

9.

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Clarence Darrow

11.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

15.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

19.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

20.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

21.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

22.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

23.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

24.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

27.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

28.

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

29.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

30.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

31.

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

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

40.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

42.

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

Berenson, Bernard

43.

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

Lowell, James Russell

44.

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

Scott Westerfeld

45.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.