Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

2.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

4.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

5.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

6.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

7.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

8.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

9.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

10.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

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

12.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

13.

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

14.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

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

Kahlil Gibran

16.

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

Carrel, Alexis

17.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

18.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

19.

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

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

Renard, Jules

25.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

28.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

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

Barnes, Leonard

30.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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.

36.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

38.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

39.

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

40.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

42.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

43.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

44.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

45.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

46.

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

Kersha, Al

47.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.