Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

2.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

3.

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

Mann, Horace

4.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

5.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

6.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

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

13.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

14.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

15.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

Truman, Harry S

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

20.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

25.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

26.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

27.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

34.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

35.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

38.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

39.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

40.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

41.

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

Mark Twain

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

46.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

47.

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.

48.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

49.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

50.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld