Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

2.

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

Whately, Richard

3.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

4.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

7.

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

Clarence Darrow

8.

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

9.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

10.

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

11.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

12.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

14.

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

Kersha, Al

15.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

16.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

17.

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

Mark Twain

18.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

19.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

20.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

21.

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

Truman, Harry S

22.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

23.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

25.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

26.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

31.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

32.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

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

Cronkite, Walter

35.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

36.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

37.

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

38.

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

Rosten, Leo

39.

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

Blake, William

40.

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

Herbert Agar

41.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

42.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

43.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

48.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

49.

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

50.

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

Sontag, Susan