Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

2.

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

Tomlin, Lily

3.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

4.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

6.

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.

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Camus, Albert

10.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

12.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

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

15.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

18.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

22.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

23.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

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

25.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

26.

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

Zola, Emile

27.

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

28.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

29.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

West, Jessamyn

32.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

35.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

36.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

37.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

39.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

43.

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

44.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

45.

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.

46.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

49.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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