Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Herbert Agar

2.

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.

3.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

4.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

5.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

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

Lowell, James Russell

7.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

8.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

9.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

14.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

15.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

Whately, Richard

17.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

19.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

20.

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

Lee, Bruce

21.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

27.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

28.

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

Carrel, Alexis

29.

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

30.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

31.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

32.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

33.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Edith Sitwell

37.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

38.

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

Fuller, Max

39.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

40.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

41.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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.

44.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

45.

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

46.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

Farnham, Eliza

48.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

49.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.