Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Bible

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.

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

4.

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

Truman, Harry S

5.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

6.

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

Herbert, Frank

7.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

8.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

9.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Penn, William

12.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

16.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

17.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

20.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Blake, William

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

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

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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

Strachey, Lionel

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Lee, Bruce

29.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

35.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Norris, Frank

40.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Whately, Richard

43.

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

Clarence Darrow

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

47.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

48.

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

Zola, Emile

49.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

50.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De