Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

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

Churchill, Winston

4.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

5.

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

Camus, Albert

6.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

7.

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.

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

Emre, Yumus

10.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

11.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

12.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

15.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

19.

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

Darrow, Clarence

20.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

21.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

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

Seabury, David

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

26.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

28.

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

Whately, Richard

29.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

32.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

33.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

34.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

35.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

36.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

37.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

38.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

41.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

45.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

46.

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

47.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.