Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

2.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Confucius

5.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

6.

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

Rostand, Jean

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

Mann, Horace

12.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

Truman, Harry S

14.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

21.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

22.

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

28.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

29.

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

30.

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

Lewis, C. S.

31.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

33.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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.

35.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

36.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

40.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

41.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

42.

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

43.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

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

Berenson, Bernard

45.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

46.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

47.

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

Mark Twain

48.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

49.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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.