Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

2.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

3.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

4.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

5.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

6.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

15.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

16.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

19.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

20.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

21.

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.

22.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

23.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

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

Richards, R. Scott

25.

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

Kersha, Al

26.

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

27.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

32.

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

West, Jessamyn

33.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

34.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

35.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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

37.

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

Bach, Richard

38.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

39.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

40.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.