Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

2.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

3.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

4.

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

5.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

6.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Stone, W. Clement

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

20.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

21.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

22.

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

Hare, J. C.

23.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

Darrow, Clarence

27.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

35.

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.

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

39.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

42.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

44.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

45.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.