Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Clarence Darrow

2.

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

Blake, William

3.

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

4.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

5.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

6.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

7.

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

Edith Sitwell

8.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

9.

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

Herbert Agar

10.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

12.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

14.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

15.

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

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

18.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

19.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

23.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

24.

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

Valery, Paul

25.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

27.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

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

Herbert, Frank

32.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

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

36.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

37.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

40.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

41.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

42.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

45.

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