Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Zola, Emile

2.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

3.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

4.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

5.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

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

7.

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)

8.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

9.

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.

10.

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)

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

13.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

14.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

15.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

16.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

17.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

18.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

21.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

22.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

23.

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

24.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

25.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

26.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

27.

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

28.

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

Howard, Vernon

29.

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

30.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

33.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Brandes, George

35.

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

36.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.