Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

2.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

3.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

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

Darrow, Clarence

5.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

6.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

7.

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

Lee, Bruce

8.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

13.

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

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

16.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Zola, Emile

21.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Berlin, Irving

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

28.

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

Clarence Darrow

29.

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

30.

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

Malcolm X

31.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

32.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

33.

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

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

37.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

38.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

42.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

43.

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

Whately, Richard

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

48.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

49.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

50.

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