Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

4.

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

5.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

6.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

7.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

8.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

9.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

11.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

12.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Herbert Agar

15.

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

16.

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

Renard, Jules

17.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

18.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

19.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

20.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

22.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

23.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

24.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

25.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

28.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

29.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

30.

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

32.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

33.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

34.

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

Fuller, Max

35.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

36.

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

37.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

40.

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

Mark Twain

41.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

42.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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

45.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

46.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

49.

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

50.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais