Motivational Quotes

Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

2.

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

Scott Westerfeld

3.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

8.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

9.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

13.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

14.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

16.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

17.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Walters, Hellmut

22.

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

Clarence Darrow

23.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

24.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

25.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

26.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

29.

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

Richards, R. Scott

30.

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

31.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

32.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

33.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

34.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

35.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

37.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

38.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

42.

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)

43.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.