Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

2.

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

3.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

4.

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

5.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

6.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

7.

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.

8.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

9.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Lee, Bruce

11.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

12.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

13.

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

14.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

15.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

16.

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

Malcolm X

17.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

21.

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

Carrel, Alexis

22.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

23.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

25.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

26.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

28.

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

Zola, Emile

29.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

32.

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.

33.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

Kersha, Al

37.

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

Herbert Agar

38.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

40.

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

Farnham, Eliza

41.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

42.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

43.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

44.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

45.

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

Camus, Albert

46.

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

47.

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

Russell, Utterly

48.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

49.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

50.

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

Herbert, Frank