Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

3.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

5.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

6.

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

Lowell, James Russell

7.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

8.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

9.

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

12.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

13.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

14.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

15.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Tom Bissell

21.

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

22.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

23.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

27.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

28.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

32.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

35.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

38.

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

Farnham, Eliza

39.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

41.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

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

Norris, Frank

43.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

44.

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

Joubert, Joseph

45.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

47.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

48.

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

Berenson, Bernard

49.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

50.

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