Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

2.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

3.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

7.

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

8.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

9.

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

Malcolm X

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

Carrel, Alexis

17.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

18.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

19.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

24.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

26.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

27.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

30.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

31.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

32.

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

Cronkite, Walter

33.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

35.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

36.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

37.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

38.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

39.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

40.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Darrow, Clarence

42.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

43.

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

Fuller, Max

44.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

45.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

46.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

47.

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

Joubert, Joseph

48.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

49.

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

Lennon, John

50.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.