Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

2.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

4.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

5.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

6.

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

Valery, Paul

7.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Hare, J. C.

10.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

11.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

18.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

20.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

23.

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

24.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

27.

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

Barnes, Leonard

28.

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

29.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

30.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

31.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

32.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

34.

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

35.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Darrow, Clarence

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Kersha, Al

41.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

42.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

43.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

44.

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

Herbert Agar

45.

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

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

Tomlin, Lily

50.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich