Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Brandes, George

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

3.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

4.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

5.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

6.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

8.

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

9.

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

11.

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

12.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

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

Richards, R. Scott

14.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

15.

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

16.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

17.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

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

Davies, Robertson

20.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

21.

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

Seabury, David

22.

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

Scott Westerfeld

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

26.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

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

29.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

30.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

31.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

32.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

33.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

34.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

35.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

36.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

37.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

39.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

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

Truman, Harry S

44.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

45.

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

46.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

47.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

50.

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