Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

3.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

4.

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

West, Jessamyn

5.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

6.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

7.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

10.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Walters, Hellmut

12.

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

13.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

14.

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

Valery, Paul

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Emre, Yumus

17.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

19.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

20.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

21.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

26.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

27.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

28.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

29.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Berenson, Bernard

32.

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

Bach, Richard

33.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

35.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

36.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

37.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

45.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

46.

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

Berlin, Irving

47.

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

Fuller, Max

48.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish