Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Edith Sitwell

2.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

3.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

4.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Fuller, Max

7.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

10.

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

Brandes, George

11.

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

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

13.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

16.

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

17.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

18.

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

Bach, Richard

19.

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

Cronkite, Walter

20.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

21.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

30.

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

31.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

33.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

34.

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

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

36.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

37.

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

Renard, Jules

38.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

41.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

42.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

43.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

44.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

45.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

46.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

47.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

48.

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

Valery, Paul

49.

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

50.

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

Richards, R. Scott