Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

2.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

3.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

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

Bach, Richard

5.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

6.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

7.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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.

9.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

11.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

12.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

15.

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

Pindar

16.

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

17.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

19.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

20.

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

Clarence Darrow

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.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

23.

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

Scott Westerfeld

24.

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

25.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

26.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

27.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

29.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

30.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

31.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

32.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

33.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

34.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

35.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

36.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Herbert Agar

40.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

44.

Truth never hurts the teller.