Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

2.

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

3.

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

Penn, William

4.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

9.

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

10.

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

Confucius

11.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

12.

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

Howard, Vernon

13.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

14.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

15.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Cronkite, Walter

17.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

18.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

21.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

24.

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

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Lennon, John

27.

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

Tomlin, Lily

28.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

29.

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

Tom Bissell

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

38.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

39.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

40.

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

Strachey, Lionel

41.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

42.

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

43.

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

44.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

45.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

48.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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