Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

2.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

3.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

4.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

5.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

6.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

7.

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

8.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

9.

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

Galileo Galilei

10.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

11.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

14.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

15.

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

16.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

17.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

18.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Howard, Vernon

20.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

21.

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)

22.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

29.

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

Davies, Robertson

30.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Hare, J. C.

36.

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

Blake, William

37.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

40.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

43.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

45.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

46.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

47.

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

48.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

49.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

50.

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

Hall, Calvin S.