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.

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)

2.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

3.

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

4.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

5.

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

6.

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

Pindar

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

9.

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

Bible

10.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

11.

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

12.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

13.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

16.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

20.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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)

22.

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

Diderot, Denis

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

25.

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

Carrel, Alexis

26.

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

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

29.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

31.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

32.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

33.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

34.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

36.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

39.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

40.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

41.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

42.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

43.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

44.

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

45.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

47.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

48.

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

49.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

50.

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

Mamet, David