Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Berlin, Irving

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Kahlil Gibran

15.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Mark Twain

17.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

18.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

19.

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

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

21.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

22.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

23.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

27.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

28.

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

29.

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

Strachey, Lionel

30.

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

Lee, Bruce

31.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

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

Scott Westerfeld

37.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

38.

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

Pancoast, Mal

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

43.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

44.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

See it like it is!