Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

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

Galileo Galilei

3.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

4.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Rostand, Jean

8.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

9.

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

10.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

18.

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

Zola, Emile

19.

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

Hesse, Hermann

20.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

24.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

25.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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)

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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

30.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

31.

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

32.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

33.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

35.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

36.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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.