Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

2.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

5.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

6.

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

7.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

8.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

12.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

13.

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

Russell, Utterly

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

Howard, Vernon

16.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

17.

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

Herbert Agar

18.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

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

Confucius

24.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

25.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

26.

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

Bach, Richard

27.

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

Stone, W. Clement

28.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

32.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

33.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

34.

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

Edith Sitwell

35.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

Herbert, Frank

37.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

38.

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

Aristotle

39.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

Malcolm X

41.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

43.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Adler, Alfred

46.

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