Motivational Quotes

Truth

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

2.

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

Cronkite, Walter

3.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

4.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

5.

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

Walters, Hellmut

6.

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

Strachey, Lionel

7.

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

Hesiod

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

12.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Wilder, Billy

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

23.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

25.

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

Seabury, David

26.

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

Mann, Horace

27.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

28.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Galileo Galilei

31.

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

Mamet, David

32.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

33.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

36.

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

Clarence Darrow

37.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

38.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

39.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

40.

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

41.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

42.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

46.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

47.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

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

50.

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

Lewis, C. S.