Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

3.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

5.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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

Whately, Richard

7.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

8.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

9.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

18.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

19.

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

20.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

22.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

23.

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.

24.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

25.

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

Rosten, Leo

26.

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

West, Jessamyn

27.

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

Strachey, Lionel

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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.

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

34.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

36.

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

Sontag, Susan

37.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

38.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

40.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

41.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

42.

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

Malcolm X

43.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

44.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

45.

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

46.

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

Luther, Martin

47.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

48.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

50.

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