Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

2.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

3.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

4.

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

Epictetus

5.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

6.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

7.

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

Rostand, Jean

8.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

9.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

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

13.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

17.

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

18.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

22.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

23.

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

Whately, Richard

24.

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

Renard, Jules

25.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

26.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

27.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

28.

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

Rosten, Leo

29.

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

Zola, Emile

30.

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

31.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

36.

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

37.

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

Cronkite, Walter

38.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

40.

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

41.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

42.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

46.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

Lowell, James Russell

49.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.