Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

3.

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

Howard, Vernon

4.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

5.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Strachey, Lionel

9.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

11.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Berlin, Irving

17.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

18.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Walters, Hellmut

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

21.

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

Brandes, George

22.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

23.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

26.

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

27.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

28.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

29.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

30.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

31.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

32.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

33.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

34.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

35.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

36.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

37.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

40.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

42.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

43.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

44.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

46.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

47.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

48.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.