Motivational Quotes

Truth

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

10.

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

Russell, Utterly

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Edith Sitwell

14.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

15.

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

Walters, Hellmut

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Lennon, John

19.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Merzel, David

22.

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

23.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

26.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

27.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

29.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

30.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

32.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Hesiod

34.

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

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

37.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

38.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

39.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

41.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

42.

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

43.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

45.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

46.

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

47.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

48.

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

49.

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

Scott Westerfeld

50.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee