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 is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

2.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

3.

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

Mamet, David

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

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

6.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

10.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

12.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

13.

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

Valery, Paul

14.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

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

Kersha, Al

20.

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

Strachey, Lionel

21.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

22.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

25.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

27.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

30.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

31.

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

32.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

33.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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.

36.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

37.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

38.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

39.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.