Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

2.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

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

4.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

6.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

9.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

10.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

18.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Lewis, C. S.

22.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

23.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

24.

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

25.

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

Barnes, Leonard

26.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

27.

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

Davies, Robertson

28.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

33.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

35.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Malcolm X

39.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

40.

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

Strachey, Lionel

41.

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

Kahlil Gibran

42.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

43.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Stone, W. Clement

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

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

Sontag, Susan

48.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.