Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Camus, Albert

4.

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

5.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

6.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

7.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

8.

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

Pindar

9.

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)

10.

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

Russell, Utterly

11.

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

Edith Sitwell

12.

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

Farnham, Eliza

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

15.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

19.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

20.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

21.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

Scott Westerfeld

24.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

29.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

30.

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

Kahlil Gibran

31.

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.

32.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

Rogers, Will

34.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

36.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Galileo Galilei

39.

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

Tom Bissell

40.

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

Clarence Darrow

41.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

42.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

43.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

44.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

47.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

48.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

49.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

50.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

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