Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

3.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

4.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Farnham, Eliza

14.

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

Stone, W. Clement

15.

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

Strachey, Lionel

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Richards, R. Scott

18.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

19.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

20.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

21.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

22.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

23.

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

24.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

25.

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

26.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Sontag, Susan

28.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

31.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

32.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

33.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

34.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

Russell, Utterly

37.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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)

40.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

42.

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

Howard, Vernon

43.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

44.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

45.

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

Clarence Darrow

46.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

48.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.