Motivational Quotes

Truth

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

3.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

4.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

5.

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

Rogers, Will

6.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

7.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Carrel, Alexis

10.

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

Rosten, Leo

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

14.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

16.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

17.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

20.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Dickens, Charles

22.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

25.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

28.

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

Bach, Richard

29.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

30.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

31.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

32.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

33.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

35.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

38.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Kersha, Al

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

44.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

47.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

50.

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

Hemingway, Ernest