Motivational Quotes

Truth

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

2.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

4.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

5.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

6.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

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)

8.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

9.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

10.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

11.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

15.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

16.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

19.

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

20.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

21.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

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

Mark Twain

27.

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

28.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

29.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

31.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

35.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

36.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

37.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

38.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

40.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

41.

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

43.

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