Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

6.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

7.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

8.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

9.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

10.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

16.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

17.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

18.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

20.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

21.

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.

22.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

26.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

30.

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

Howard, Vernon

31.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

32.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

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

Whately, Richard

34.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

35.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

36.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

40.

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

Lee, Bruce

41.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

45.

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

Berlin, Irving

46.

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

47.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

48.

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)

49.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

50.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann