Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

2.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

3.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

4.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

5.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

6.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

7.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

11.

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

12.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

14.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

19.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

22.

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

Russell, Utterly

23.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

24.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

28.

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

Clarence Darrow

29.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

30.

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

Edith Sitwell

31.

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)

32.

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

Farnham, Eliza

33.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

34.

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

35.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

36.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

42.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

43.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

45.

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

46.

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

Valery, Paul

47.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

Kersha, Al

49.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.