Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Seabury, David

2.

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

Lewis, C. S.

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Baldwin, James

6.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

8.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

9.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

10.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Adler, Alfred

13.

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

Mamet, David

14.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

16.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

17.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

19.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

20.

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

21.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

22.

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

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

27.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

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

31.

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

West, Jessamyn

32.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Renard, Jules

37.

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

Pancoast, Mal

38.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

39.

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

Blake, William

40.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

41.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

42.

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

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

45.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

46.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

47.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

50.

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