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.

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

Edith Sitwell

2.

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

Lee, Bruce

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

5.

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

Sontag, Susan

6.

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

Darrow, Clarence

7.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

8.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

9.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

12.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

13.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

14.

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

Rostand, Jean

15.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

20.

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

Mamet, David

21.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

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

Blake, William

23.

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.

24.

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

Herbert, Frank

25.

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

Fuller, Max

26.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

27.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

28.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Emre, Yumus

32.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

33.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

34.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

35.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

36.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

37.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Whately, Richard

40.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

41.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

42.

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

43.

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

Richards, R. Scott

44.

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

45.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

46.

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