Motivational Quotes

Truth

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

- Shaftesbury, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Lennon, John

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

10.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

11.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

12.

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

Dickens, Charles

13.

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

Pindar

14.

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

15.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

16.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

17.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

18.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

26.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

27.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

29.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

30.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

31.

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

32.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

35.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

36.

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

Edith Sitwell

37.

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

38.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

39.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

40.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

41.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann