Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

2.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

3.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

4.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

5.

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

Butler, Samuel

6.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

7.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

8.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

9.

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

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

14.

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

15.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

16.

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

Malcolm X

17.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

19.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

23.

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

Kersha, Al

24.

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

Fuller, Max

25.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

28.

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

Hesse, Hermann

29.

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

30.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

32.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

33.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

34.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

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

39.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

42.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

43.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Merzel, David

45.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

46.

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

Voltaire

47.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

48.

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

49.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

50.

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

Berenson, Bernard