Motivational Quotes

Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

2.

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

3.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

4.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

5.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

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

Whately, Richard

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Wilder, Billy

11.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

12.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

14.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

15.

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

Clarence Darrow

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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)

21.

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

Farnham, Eliza

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

28.

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

29.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

30.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

31.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

32.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

36.

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

Russell, Utterly

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

39.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

40.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

41.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

42.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

43.

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

44.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

45.

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

Hall, Calvin S.