Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

3.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

6.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

8.

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

Galileo Galilei

9.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Carrel, Alexis

11.

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

Russell, Utterly

12.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

Kahlil Gibran

16.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

23.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

24.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

25.

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)

26.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

27.

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

28.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

Mann, Horace

32.

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

Rosten, Leo

33.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

34.

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

Edith Sitwell

35.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

37.

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

Kersha, Al

38.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Darrow, Clarence

43.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

44.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

45.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

46.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

48.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

49.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

50.

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