Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

2.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

4.

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

Tom Bissell

5.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

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

Adler, Alfred

8.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

9.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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)

12.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

13.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Berenson, Bernard

15.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

16.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

19.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

22.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

23.

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

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

26.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

27.

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

Wilder, Billy

28.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

29.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

30.

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

Galileo Galilei

31.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

32.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

36.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

37.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

38.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Dickens, Charles

42.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

48.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

49.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

50.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell