Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

2.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

3.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

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

5.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

6.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

7.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

8.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

10.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

11.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

12.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Mark Twain

14.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

17.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

18.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

25.

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

26.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

27.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

28.

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

Barnes, Leonard

29.

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

30.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

37.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

43.

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

Kersha, Al

44.

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

45.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

46.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

47.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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