Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

9.

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

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

12.

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

Zola, Emile

13.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

14.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

15.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

16.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

19.

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

West, Jessamyn

20.

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

Truman, Harry S

21.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

25.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

26.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

28.

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

29.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

31.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

32.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

33.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

34.

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

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

37.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Too much truth is uncouth.