Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

3.

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

4.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

5.

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

Bach, Richard

6.

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

Butler, Samuel

7.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

8.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

9.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

10.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

13.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

14.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

15.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Lee, Bruce

17.

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

18.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

19.

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

20.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

22.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

23.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

26.

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

Clarence Darrow

27.

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

Herbert Agar

28.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

31.

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

32.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Gide, Andre

34.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

35.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

36.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

37.

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

38.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

45.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

46.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

47.

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

48.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

49.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

50.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea