Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

2.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

4.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

5.

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

Stone, W. Clement

6.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

7.

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.

8.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Mark Twain

11.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

12.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

16.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

19.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

22.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

25.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

Lennon, John

27.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

28.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

29.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

33.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

34.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

37.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

38.

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.

39.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

42.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

44.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

45.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

50.

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

Lee, Bruce