Motivational Quotes

Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Pancoast, Mal

2.

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

Berenson, Bernard

3.

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

4.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

5.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

6.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

8.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

9.

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

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

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

12.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

14.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

15.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

16.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

20.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

21.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

22.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

23.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

24.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Galileo Galilei

26.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

27.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

28.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

29.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

32.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

33.

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

West, Jessamyn

35.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

36.

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

37.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

38.

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

Zola, Emile

39.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

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

Clarence Darrow

42.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

43.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest