Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

2.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

5.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

6.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Malcolm X

8.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

9.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

12.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

13.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

14.

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

Farnham, Eliza

15.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

16.

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

17.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

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

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

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

30.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Seabury, David

32.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

35.

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

36.

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

Penn, William

37.

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

38.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

39.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

40.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

41.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

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

Darrow, Clarence

48.

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