Motivational Quotes

Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

3.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

4.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

8.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

9.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

10.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

11.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

Kersha, Al

13.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

14.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

16.

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

17.

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

Valery, Paul

18.

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.

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Scott Westerfeld

21.

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

22.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

23.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Bible

26.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

30.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

32.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

33.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

43.

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

Darrow, Clarence

44.

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

45.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

46.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

48.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

49.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

50.

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

Mark Twain