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.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

2.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

3.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

4.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

5.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

6.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

7.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

8.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

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

Russell, Utterly

11.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

12.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

16.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

18.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

19.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

22.

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

Diderot, Denis

23.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Seabury, David

29.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

30.

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

Penn, William

31.

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

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

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

Gide, Andre

34.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

35.

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

36.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

37.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

40.

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

Tom Bissell

41.

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

Rogers, Will

42.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

43.

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

Carrel, Alexis

44.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

45.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Edith Sitwell

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

50.

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

Whately, Richard

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