Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

2.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

4.

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

5.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

7.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

8.

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

Valery, Paul

9.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

10.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

11.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

13.

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

Scott Westerfeld

14.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

15.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

16.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

17.

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

18.

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

Whately, Richard

19.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

20.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

25.

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

Bach, Richard

26.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

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

Russell, Utterly

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

30.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

31.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

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

Low, Albert

33.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

West, Jessamyn

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

37.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

38.

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

39.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

40.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

41.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

43.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

44.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

47.

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

48.

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