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.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

2.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

5.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

6.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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.

11.

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

Herbert, Frank

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

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

Scott Westerfeld

14.

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

Edith Sitwell

15.

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

Valery, Paul

16.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

17.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

18.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

19.

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

Herbert Agar

20.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

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

Mamet, David

23.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

25.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

26.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

33.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

34.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

36.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

37.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

38.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

41.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

42.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

46.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

50.

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