Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

2.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

3.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

4.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

5.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

7.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

8.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

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

10.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

16.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

18.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

19.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

20.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

22.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

26.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

27.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

30.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Clarence Darrow

38.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

39.

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

Rosten, Leo

40.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Kahlil Gibran

42.

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

Mann, Horace

43.

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

Berenson, Bernard

44.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

45.

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.

46.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

47.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

48.

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

49.

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

Lennon, John

50.

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