Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

3.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

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

Rostand, Jean

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

Camus, Albert

7.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

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

Truman, Harry S

9.

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

10.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

13.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

14.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Herbert Agar

17.

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

Berenson, Bernard

18.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

19.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

20.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

21.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

23.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

26.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

27.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

30.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

33.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

35.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

36.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

37.

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

Sontag, Susan

38.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

41.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

42.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

44.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

47.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

48.

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

Diderot, Denis