Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

5.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

6.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

7.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

8.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

9.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

12.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

13.

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

14.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

16.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

17.

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)

18.

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

Diderot, Denis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Dickens, Charles

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

25.

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

Russell, Utterly

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

28.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Wilder, Billy

30.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Edith Sitwell

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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.

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

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

Norris, Frank

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

42.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

43.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

44.

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

West, Jessamyn

45.

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.

46.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

47.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

48.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

49.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon