Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

2.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

3.

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

4.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

5.

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

Galileo Galilei

6.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

7.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

8.

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

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

11.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Blake, William

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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

14.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

22.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

23.

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

24.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

26.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

27.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

29.

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

Strachey, Lionel

30.

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

Edith Sitwell

31.

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

Renard, Jules

32.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

37.

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

38.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

39.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

40.

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

Kersha, Al

41.

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

Davies, Robertson

42.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

43.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Clarence Darrow

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

47.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

50.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.