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

1.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

2.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

3.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

4.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

5.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

6.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

7.

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

8.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

9.

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

15.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

16.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

18.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

19.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

20.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

21.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

22.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

25.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

30.

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.

31.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

32.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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