Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

3.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

5.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

9.

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

10.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

11.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

12.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

13.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

15.

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

16.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

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

19.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

20.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

21.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

24.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

25.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

26.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

27.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

28.

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

Galileo Galilei

29.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

30.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

32.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

33.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

34.

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

Cronkite, Walter

35.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

Voltaire

37.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

38.

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

Kersha, Al

39.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

40.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

41.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

42.

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

Emre, Yumus

43.

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.

44.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

48.

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