Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hesiod

2.

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

Baldwin, James

3.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

4.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

5.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

6.

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

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.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

13.

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

14.

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

Bach, Richard

15.

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

16.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

17.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

21.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

23.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

24.

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

25.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

26.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

27.

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

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Truman, Harry S

32.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

33.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

34.

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

35.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

38.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

39.

See it like it is!