Motivational Quotes

Truth

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

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

3.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

4.

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

Malcolm X

5.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

6.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

8.

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

Howard, Vernon

9.

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

Tomlin, Lily

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Stone, W. Clement

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

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

18.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

19.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

20.

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

Truman, Harry S

21.

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

Whately, Richard

22.

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

23.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

24.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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.

27.

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

Farnham, Eliza

28.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

29.

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

Truman, Harry S

30.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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.

33.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

34.

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

35.

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

Lennon, John

36.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Darrow, Clarence

38.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

45.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

46.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

48.

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

Low, Albert

49.

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

50.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca