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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Herbert, Frank

5.

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

Fuller, Max

6.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

8.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

9.

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

10.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

18.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Diderot, Denis

22.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

24.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

25.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

26.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

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

Joubert, Joseph

30.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

34.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

35.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

37.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.