Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

2.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

3.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

4.

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

5.

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

Norris, Frank

6.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

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

8.

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

Clarence Darrow

9.

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

Rosten, Leo

10.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

14.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

20.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

21.

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

Truman, Harry S

22.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

27.

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

Emre, Yumus

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

30.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

32.

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

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

40.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

41.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

42.

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

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

47.

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

Gide, Andre

48.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

49.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

50.

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