Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

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

4.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

5.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

6.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

7.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8.

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

Barnes, Leonard

9.

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

10.

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

11.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

12.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

13.

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

Rosten, Leo

14.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

15.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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 exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

18.

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

19.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

22.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

23.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

25.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

26.

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

27.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

28.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

31.

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)

32.

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.

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

35.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

36.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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