Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

2.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

3.

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

Davies, Robertson

4.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Mann, Horace

6.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

7.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

10.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

11.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Darrow, Clarence

14.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

15.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

16.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

Emre, Yumus

19.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

25.

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

26.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

29.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

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

Strachey, Lionel

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

39.

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

Hesse, Hermann

40.

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

Kahlil Gibran

41.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

45.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

46.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

48.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

50.

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.