Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

2.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

3.

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

Valery, Paul

4.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

6.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

7.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

8.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

9.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

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.

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

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

Mark Twain

14.

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

15.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

20.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

21.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

22.

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

23.

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

24.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

26.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

27.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

28.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

31.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

33.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

34.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Confucius

41.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Walters, Hellmut

47.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

48.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

49.

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

50.

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.

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