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.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

2.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

4.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

6.

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

Davies, Robertson

7.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

8.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

9.

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.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

11.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

14.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

15.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

17.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

20.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

Confucius

22.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

23.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

26.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Valery, Paul

30.

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

31.

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

Barnes, Leonard

32.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

33.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

36.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

37.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

41.

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

42.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

44.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

45.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

46.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

47.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

Truth is its own reward.