Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

2.

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

3.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

4.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

5.

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

Hesiod

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

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

Lowell, James Russell

8.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

9.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

11.

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

12.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

13.

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

Cronkite, Walter

14.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

15.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

17.

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

Lewis, C. S.

18.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

19.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

20.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

21.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

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

25.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Adler, Alfred

28.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

30.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

31.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

32.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

34.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.