Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

2.

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

Mann, Horace

3.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

4.

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

5.

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

Dickinson, Emily

6.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

9.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

10.

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

11.

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

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Barnes, Leonard

13.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

14.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

15.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

17.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

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

Carrel, Alexis

19.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

20.

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

West, Jessamyn

21.

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

Diderot, Denis

22.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

24.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

29.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

30.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

31.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

32.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

33.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

34.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

38.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

43.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

44.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

47.

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

48.

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)

49.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin