Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Stone, W. Clement

2.

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

Luther, Martin

3.

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

4.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

5.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

6.

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

Berenson, Bernard

7.

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

Richards, R. Scott

8.

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

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

14.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

15.

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

16.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

17.

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

Seabury, David

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

20.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

21.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

Whately, Richard

35.

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