Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

2.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

3.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

4.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

5.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

6.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

7.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

8.

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

Clarence Darrow

9.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

10.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

11.

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

Barnes, Leonard

12.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

13.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

14.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Lee, Bruce

16.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

Herbert Agar

19.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

22.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

23.

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

Dickens, Charles

24.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

Berlin, Irving

26.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

27.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

30.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

31.

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

32.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

35.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

36.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

37.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

38.

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