Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

2.

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

3.

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

Dickens, Charles

4.

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

Truman, Harry S

5.

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

Kahlil Gibran

6.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

7.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

8.

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

9.

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

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

Valery, Paul

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Edith Sitwell

15.

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.

16.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

17.

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

18.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

19.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

21.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

22.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

23.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

West, Jessamyn

26.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

27.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

28.

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

Herbert, Frank

29.

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

30.

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)

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

33.

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

34.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

37.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.