Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

2.

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

Dickinson, Emily

3.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

4.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

5.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

6.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

7.

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

West, Jessamyn

8.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

9.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

10.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

11.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

12.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

13.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

14.

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

15.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Diderot, Denis

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

20.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

21.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Rostand, Jean

23.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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

Tomlin, Lily

26.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

28.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

29.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

32.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

33.

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

Camus, Albert

34.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

36.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

37.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

38.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

39.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

40.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

41.

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

Whately, Richard

42.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

44.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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