Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Herbert Agar

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

10.

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

11.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

12.

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

13.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

18.

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

19.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

20.

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

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

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

Malcolm X

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

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

Lee, Bruce

29.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

30.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

31.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

33.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

36.

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

Russell, Utterly

37.

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

Berlin, Irving

38.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

39.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

40.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

41.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Renard, Jules

44.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

45.

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

46.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

50.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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