Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Malcolm X

2.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

3.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

4.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

8.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

9.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

10.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

11.

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

Farnham, Eliza

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Richards, R. Scott

15.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

17.

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

18.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Clarence Darrow

21.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

28.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

30.

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

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

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

33.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

34.

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

35.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

36.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

41.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

42.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

43.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

46.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

47.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare