Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

2.

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

3.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

4.

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

Stone, W. Clement

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

7.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

8.

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

9.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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

Howard, Vernon

12.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

13.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Sontag, Susan

17.

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.

18.

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

Lennon, John

19.

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

West, Jessamyn

20.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

23.

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

24.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

25.

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

Kahlil Gibran

26.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Emre, Yumus

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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.

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Darrow, Clarence

35.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

40.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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.