Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Scott Westerfeld

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

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

Confucius

6.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

8.

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

Pindar

9.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

10.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

14.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Fuller, Max

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

24.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Whately, Richard

27.

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

28.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

29.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

31.

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

32.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

34.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

35.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

36.

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

West, Jessamyn

37.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

38.

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

39.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

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

Augustine, St.

43.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

44.

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

Adler, Alfred

45.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.