Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

2.

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

Rogers, Will

3.

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.

4.

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

Edith Sitwell

5.

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

Russell, Utterly

6.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

7.

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

Herbert Agar

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

10.

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.

11.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

12.

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

Galileo Galilei

13.

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

14.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

16.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

17.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

19.

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

Clarence Darrow

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

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

28.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

30.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

36.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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)

40.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

41.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

42.

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

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

45.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

Berlin, Irving

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

50.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood