Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Tomlin, Lily

2.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

Kersha, Al

4.

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

Butler, Samuel

5.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

6.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

7.

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

8.

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

Farnham, Eliza

9.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

12.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

13.

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

Richards, R. Scott

14.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

15.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

17.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

18.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Adler, Alfred

21.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

22.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

23.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

24.

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

26.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

27.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

28.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

30.

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

Kahlil Gibran

31.

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

Russell, Utterly

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Blake, William

37.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

38.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

39.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Penn, William

46.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

47.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

48.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

49.

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

Davies, Robertson

50.

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