Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

2.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

3.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

4.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

5.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

6.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

7.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

8.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

9.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

10.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

11.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

12.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

13.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

14.

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

15.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

17.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

18.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

Fuller, Max

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

21.

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

22.

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

23.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

24.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

26.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

30.

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

Diderot, Denis

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Augustine, St.

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

36.

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

37.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

38.

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)

39.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

40.

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

Herbert Agar

41.

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.

42.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

44.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

45.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

46.

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

Stone, W. Clement

47.

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