Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

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

Hall, Calvin S.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

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

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

10.

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

Cronkite, Walter

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

13.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

18.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

22.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Kersha, Al

24.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

26.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Truman, Harry S

32.

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

Tom Bissell

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

40.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

41.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

42.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

43.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

44.

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

Dickens, Charles

45.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

48.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

50.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare