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.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

2.

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

Bach, Richard

3.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

4.

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

5.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

6.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

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

Baldwin, James

8.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

9.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

10.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

11.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

12.

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

Pindar

13.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

16.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

17.

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)

18.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

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

Malcolm X

22.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

29.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

30.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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

Russell, Utterly

32.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

33.

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

34.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

36.

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

Lewis, C. S.

37.

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

Tomlin, Lily

38.

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

39.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

40.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Cronkite, Walter

44.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

45.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

46.

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

47.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

48.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

49.

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

Hesse, Hermann

50.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William