Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

2.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

3.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

4.

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

5.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

7.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Strachey, Lionel

15.

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

16.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

18.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

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.

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

24.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

25.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

30.

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

31.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

32.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

33.

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

34.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

37.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

38.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

40.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Whately, Richard

42.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

43.

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