Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

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

3.

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

Butler, Samuel

4.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

5.

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

Renard, Jules

6.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

7.

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

Rogers, Will

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

11.

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

Brandes, George

12.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

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

14.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

18.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

19.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

20.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Davies, Robertson

25.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

29.

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

Cronkite, Walter

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Rosten, Leo

33.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

34.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

35.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

Blake, William

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

42.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

43.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

46.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

47.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

48.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

49.

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

50.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug