Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

2.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

3.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

4.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

7.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

8.

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

Whately, Richard

9.

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

10.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

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

Bible

12.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

14.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

18.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Kahlil Gibran

20.

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

Kersha, Al

21.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Darrow, Clarence

23.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

24.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

32.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

Zola, Emile

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

39.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

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

41.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

42.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

43.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

44.

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

45.

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

Herbert Agar

46.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

48.

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