Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

3.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

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

Clarence Darrow

5.

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

Pascal, Blaise

6.

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

Kersha, Al

7.

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

Lowell, James Russell

8.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

9.

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.

10.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

12.

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

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

14.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

19.

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

20.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

21.

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

22.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

23.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Rosten, Leo

25.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

26.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

27.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

28.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

29.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

30.

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

Stone, W. Clement

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

36.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

37.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

38.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

39.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

40.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

43.

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

Kahlil Gibran

44.

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.

45.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

What is true belongs to me!