Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Dickens, Charles

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

Russell, Utterly

4.

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

Darrow, Clarence

5.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

6.

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

7.

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

Lowell, James Russell

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

11.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

12.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

13.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

14.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

15.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

16.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

17.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

18.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

19.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

20.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

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

22.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

24.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Herbert, Frank

26.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

27.

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

28.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

29.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

30.

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.

31.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

33.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Kahlil Gibran

37.

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

Farnham, Eliza

38.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

40.

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

41.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

44.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander