Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

2.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

8.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

9.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

11.

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

Clarence Darrow

12.

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

Whately, Richard

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Farnham, Eliza

19.

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

Russell, Utterly

20.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

21.

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

22.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

23.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

24.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

25.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

26.

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

27.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

29.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

Tom Bissell

33.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

36.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

37.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

38.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

39.

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

40.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

42.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

44.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

45.

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

46.

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