Motivational Quotes

Truth

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

- Farnham, Eliza

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Adler, Alfred

2.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

3.

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

4.

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

Renard, Jules

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

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

7.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

8.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

9.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

10.

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

Penn, William

11.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

12.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

14.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

15.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

16.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

17.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

18.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

19.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

20.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

21.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

22.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

23.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

24.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Truman, Harry S

28.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Merzel, David

32.

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

33.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

34.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

36.

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

Tomlin, Lily

37.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

41.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

42.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

43.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Carrel, Alexis

45.

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

Berlin, Irving

46.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

47.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

48.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

49.

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

50.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.