Motivational Quotes

Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

2.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

4.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

5.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Rostand, Jean

7.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Strachey, Lionel

14.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

17.

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

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

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

20.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

21.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

22.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Lennon, John

25.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Farnham, Eliza

27.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

28.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

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

Valery, Paul

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

35.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

38.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

39.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

41.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

42.

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

43.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

44.

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

Renard, Jules

45.

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

Edith Sitwell

46.

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

47.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

48.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

49.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

50.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon