Motivational Quotes

Truth

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

2.

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

Lennon, John

3.

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

4.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

5.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

6.

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

7.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

8.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

9.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

12.

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

13.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

14.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Walters, Hellmut

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

19.

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

Malcolm X

20.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

21.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

22.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

28.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

31.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

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

34.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

35.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

36.

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

Mark Twain

37.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

38.

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

39.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

40.

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

Confucius

41.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

42.

It is the truth that irritates a person.