Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

3.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

4.

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

Mann, Horace

5.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

6.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

7.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

11.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

12.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

15.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

16.

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

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Herbert Agar

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

21.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

22.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

23.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

24.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

31.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

32.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

33.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

34.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

35.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

36.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

37.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

38.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

39.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

42.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

43.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

44.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

45.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

46.

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

47.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

48.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

49.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

50.

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