Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Pancoast, Mal

2.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

4.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

5.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

8.

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

Joubert, Joseph

9.

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

Hesse, Hermann

10.

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

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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)

13.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

16.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

17.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

19.

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

Walters, Hellmut

20.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

28.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

29.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

30.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

31.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

32.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

33.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

34.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

35.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

36.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

37.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Farnham, Eliza

39.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

40.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

41.

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

Valery, Paul

42.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

43.

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

West, Jessamyn

44.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

46.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

48.

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

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Baldwin, James

50.

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