Motivational Quotes

Truth

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

2.

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

Tom Bissell

3.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

4.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Cronkite, Walter

8.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

9.

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

10.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

11.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

20.

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

Emre, Yumus

21.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

22.

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

23.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

25.

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

Hare, J. C.

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

28.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

31.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

32.

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.

33.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

34.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

37.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Herbert Agar

42.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

43.

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

Kersha, Al

44.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

45.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

46.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

47.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

48.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

49.

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