Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

2.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

4.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

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

8.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

9.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

10.

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

11.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

12.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

15.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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.

20.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

21.

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

Edith Sitwell

22.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

28.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

30.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

31.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

32.

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

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

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

35.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

36.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

37.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

38.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.