Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Herbert Agar

3.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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)

5.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

6.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

7.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

8.

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

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Mamet, David

11.

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

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Howard, Vernon

14.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

West, Jessamyn

16.

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

17.

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

Penn, William

18.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

Blake, William

21.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

23.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Bach, Richard

27.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

28.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Lee, Bruce

31.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

32.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

33.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

36.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

37.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

38.

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

Malcolm X

39.

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

Blake, William

40.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

41.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

42.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

43.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

44.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

45.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

46.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.