Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Rosten, Leo

2.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

3.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

5.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

6.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

7.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

8.

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

9.

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

Emre, Yumus

10.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

West, Jessamyn

17.

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.

18.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

19.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

20.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

22.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

23.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

24.

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

Barnes, Leonard

25.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

37.

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

38.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

39.

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

40.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

41.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

42.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

43.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

44.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

45.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

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

48.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Herbert, Frank

50.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav