Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

2.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

3.

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

Joubert, Joseph

4.

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

Berenson, Bernard

5.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Berlin, Irving

13.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

14.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

15.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

19.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

20.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

24.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

25.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

26.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Seabury, David

29.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

30.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

32.

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

33.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

36.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

37.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

38.

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

Edith Sitwell

39.

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

Bach, Richard

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

42.

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

43.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

44.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

45.

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

Dickens, Charles