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.

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

2.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

3.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

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

5.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

6.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

9.

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.

10.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

11.

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

Confucius

12.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

13.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

16.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

22.

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

Lee, Bruce

23.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

24.

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

Kahlil Gibran

25.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

26.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

29.

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

Merzel, David

30.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

34.

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

35.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

36.

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

Lennon, John

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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