Motivational Quotes

Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

- Prentice, George D.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

5.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

6.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

7.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

8.

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.

9.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

10.

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

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

13.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

14.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

15.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

17.

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

Rosten, Leo

18.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

19.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

20.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

21.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

22.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

24.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

25.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

26.

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

Darrow, Clarence

27.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

28.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

29.

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

Davies, Robertson

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

32.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

33.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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.

37.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

38.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

41.

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

Merzel, David

42.

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

Emre, Yumus

43.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

44.

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

Cronkite, Walter

45.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

46.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

47.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

48.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

49.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

50.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily