Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Baldwin, James

2.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

3.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

4.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

5.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

6.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

7.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

8.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

9.

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)

10.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

17.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

19.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

20.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

21.

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

Zola, Emile

22.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

24.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

26.

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.

27.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

28.

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

Herbert, Frank

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Barnes, Leonard

31.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

32.

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

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

37.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Sontag, Susan

40.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

41.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

42.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

44.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

45.

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

Bach, Richard

46.

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

Dickens, Charles

47.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

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.