Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

2.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

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

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

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

Lee, Bruce

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

15.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

16.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

17.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

21.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

25.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

26.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

27.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

28.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Emre, Yumus

32.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

34.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

35.

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

Bach, Richard

36.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

38.

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

39.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

40.

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

Lowell, James Russell

41.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

42.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

43.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

44.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

45.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

46.

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