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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

3.

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

4.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

5.

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

Scott Westerfeld

6.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

7.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

8.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

9.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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

Low, Albert

13.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

14.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

16.

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

Bach, Richard

17.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

20.

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

Emre, Yumus

21.

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

Clarence Darrow

22.

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

23.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

24.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

29.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

32.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

33.

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

Whately, Richard

34.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

35.

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

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

38.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

41.

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

42.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

43.

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

Tom Bissell

44.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

45.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

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

48.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord