Motivational Quotes

Truth

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Whately, Richard

8.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

10.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

15.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

16.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

18.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

19.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

20.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

22.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

23.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

24.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

28.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

29.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

30.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

33.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

36.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

37.

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

38.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

39.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.