Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

2.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

3.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

4.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

6.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

7.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

9.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

10.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

11.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

15.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

16.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

17.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

Bible

20.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

21.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

22.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

23.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

24.

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

Seabury, David

25.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

26.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

27.

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

Richards, R. Scott

28.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

29.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

30.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

31.

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

32.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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.

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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.

37.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

38.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

39.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

40.

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

Stone, W. Clement

41.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

42.

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

Norris, Frank

43.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

45.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

46.

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

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

49.

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

Merzel, David

50.

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

Renard, Jules