Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hamilton, Sir William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

2.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

3.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

4.

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

5.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

Emre, Yumus

7.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

8.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

9.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Kahlil Gibran

11.

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

12.

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

Rosten, Leo

13.

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

14.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Farnham, Eliza

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Herbert Agar

21.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

24.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

26.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

27.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

28.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

29.

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

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

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

West, Jessamyn

32.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

33.

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

34.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

35.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

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

Davies, Robertson

39.

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

40.

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

Malcolm X

41.

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

Luther, Martin

42.

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

Galileo Galilei

43.

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

Dickinson, Emily

44.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

45.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

46.

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

Richards, R. Scott

47.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

48.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.