Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

2.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

3.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

5.

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

6.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

10.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

11.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

12.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

16.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

17.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

20.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

21.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

22.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

23.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

Fuller, Max

30.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

31.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

32.

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

Zola, Emile

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

35.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

36.

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

Brandes, George

37.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

39.

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

40.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

41.

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

Cronkite, Walter

42.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

43.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

44.

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

Gide, Andre

45.

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

Augustine, St.

46.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

47.

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

Sontag, Susan

48.

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

Pancoast, Mal

49.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

50.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.