Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

4.

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

Edith Sitwell

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

12.

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

13.

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

Lee, Bruce

14.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

15.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

16.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Malcolm X

20.

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

21.

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

Norris, Frank

22.

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

Tomlin, Lily

23.

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

24.

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

Hare, J. C.

25.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

27.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

31.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

32.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

33.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

38.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

39.

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

40.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

41.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Emre, Yumus

43.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Truman, Harry S

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

48.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

49.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

50.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard