Motivational Quotes

Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

3.

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

Merzel, David

4.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

5.

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

Valery, Paul

6.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

7.

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

Blake, William

8.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

11.

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

12.

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

Confucius

13.

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

West, Jessamyn

14.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

15.

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

16.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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 catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

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

24.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Herbert Agar

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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.

28.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

29.

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

Berlin, Irving

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

33.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

34.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

35.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

Sontag, Susan

37.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

38.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

39.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

40.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

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

Strachey, Lionel

42.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

43.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'