Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

3.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

4.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

5.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

6.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

14.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

15.

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

16.

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

Galileo Galilei

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

20.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

21.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

22.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

23.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

24.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

25.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

26.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

30.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

31.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

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

41.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

43.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

44.

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

Blake, William

45.

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