Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

2.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Emre, Yumus

4.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

5.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Rostand, Jean

7.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

10.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

11.

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

12.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

14.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

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

17.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

18.

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

19.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

24.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

25.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

26.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

27.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

28.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

29.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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

Stone, W. Clement

31.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

32.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

37.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Edith Sitwell

42.

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.

43.

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

Russell, Utterly

44.

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

Valery, Paul

45.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Dickens, Charles

50.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William