Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

2.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

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

Joubert, Joseph

5.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

6.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

7.

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

Darrow, Clarence

8.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

10.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

24.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

25.

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.

26.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

27.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

28.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

29.

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

30.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

31.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

Herbert Agar

35.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

36.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

37.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

38.

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

Strachey, Lionel

39.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

40.

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

Low, Albert

41.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

42.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

43.

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

44.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

46.

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

Sontag, Susan

47.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

49.

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