Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

2.

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

3.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

4.

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

5.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

6.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

7.

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

8.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

9.

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Berlin, Irving

14.

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

West, Jessamyn

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

19.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

20.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

21.

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

Lee, Bruce

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

24.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Russell, Utterly

26.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

31.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Herbert Agar

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

38.

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

39.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

40.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

41.

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

Pindar

42.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

44.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

45.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

46.

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