Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

2.

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

Davies, Robertson

3.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

4.

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

5.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

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

Lowell, James Russell

7.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

9.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

11.

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

Hare, J. C.

12.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

15.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

16.

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

17.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

18.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

19.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Galileo Galilei

25.

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

Richards, R. Scott

26.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

27.

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

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

30.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

31.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

33.

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

34.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

35.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

36.

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