Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

2.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

3.

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

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

6.

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

Mark Twain

7.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

8.

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

Bach, Richard

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

11.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

12.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

13.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

14.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

15.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

18.

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

Scott Westerfeld

19.

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

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

22.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

23.

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

Clarence Darrow

24.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

25.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

28.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

31.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

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

Edith Sitwell

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

35.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

38.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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

41.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

43.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Lee, Bruce

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.