Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

Davies, Robertson

4.

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

5.

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)

6.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

7.

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

Epictetus

8.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

9.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

10.

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

Hesse, Hermann

11.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

12.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

14.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

20.

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

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Rostand, Jean

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

26.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

32.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

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

Dickens, Charles

35.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

36.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

37.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

40.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

41.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

44.

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

Clarence Darrow

45.

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

46.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

47.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

48.

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

Blake, William

49.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.