Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth alone wounds.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

2.

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

3.

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

Lennon, John

4.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

5.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

6.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

7.

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

Stone, W. Clement

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

10.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

14.

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

Farnham, Eliza

15.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

18.

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

Norris, Frank

19.

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

20.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Davies, Robertson

25.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

26.

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

27.

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

Cronkite, Walter

28.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

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

Rosten, Leo

32.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

33.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Mark Twain

35.

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

Herbert, Frank

36.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

37.

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

Berlin, Irving

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

40.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

42.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

43.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

44.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

45.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

46.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Richards, R. Scott

49.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

50.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare