Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

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

Whately, Richard

4.

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

5.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

6.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

7.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

8.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

9.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

10.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

11.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

12.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

13.

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

14.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Valery, Paul

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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

19.

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

Fuller, Max

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

23.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

24.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

25.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

26.

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

27.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

29.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

32.

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

Renard, Jules

33.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

34.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

35.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

36.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

37.

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

38.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

39.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

40.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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.

42.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

43.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

45.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

46.

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.

47.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

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

Tomlin, Lily

49.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

50.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.