Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

2.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

7.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

8.

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

Bible

9.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

10.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

11.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Pancoast, Mal

15.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

16.

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

17.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

West, Jessamyn

19.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

20.

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

Valery, Paul

21.

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

Clarence Darrow

22.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

30.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

31.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

32.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

35.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

36.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

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

39.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

41.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

42.

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

Malcolm X

43.

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

44.

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

Norris, Frank

45.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

47.

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

Kahlil Gibran

48.

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

49.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

50.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David