Motivational Quotes

Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

4.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

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.

6.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

7.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

8.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Gide, Andre

12.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

14.

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

15.

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

Renard, Jules

16.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

Walters, Hellmut

24.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Kersha, Al

26.

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

27.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

30.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

31.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

32.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

33.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

34.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

36.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

42.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

43.

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)

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

45.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

49.

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

Herbert, Frank

50.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln