Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

2.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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.

8.

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

Herbert Agar

9.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

10.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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

13.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

14.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

15.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

16.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

17.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

18.

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

19.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

20.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

21.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

24.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

25.

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

Norris, Frank

26.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Whately, Richard

31.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

32.

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

33.

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

West, Jessamyn

34.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

35.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

40.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

42.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.