Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

2.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

3.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

4.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

5.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

7.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

West, Jessamyn

10.

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

11.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

13.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

14.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

16.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

17.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

20.

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

Lee, Bruce

21.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

Tom Stoppard

26.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

27.

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

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

29.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

32.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

33.

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)

34.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

35.

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

36.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

37.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

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

Bach, Richard

39.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

42.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

43.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

44.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Carrel, Alexis

46.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

49.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

50.

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

Lennon, John