Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Kahlil Gibran

2.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

3.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

4.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

5.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

6.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

7.

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

8.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

12.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

13.

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

Emre, Yumus

14.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

15.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

16.

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

Edith Sitwell

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

20.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

21.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

22.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

24.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

25.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

29.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

32.

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.

33.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

34.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

36.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

38.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

41.

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