Motivational Quotes

Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Herbert, Frank

2.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

6.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

7.

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

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Truman, Harry S

10.

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

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Farnham, Eliza

16.

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

17.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

22.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

23.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Tomlin, Lily

29.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

30.

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

31.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

32.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

35.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

38.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

40.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

41.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Barnes, Leonard

43.

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

Herbert Agar

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

Edith Sitwell

46.

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

47.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

48.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

49.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

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