Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

3.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

4.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Whately, Richard

11.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

13.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

14.

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

Mark Twain

15.

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

Lewis, C. S.

16.

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

Carrel, Alexis

17.

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)

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

20.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

21.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

22.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

24.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Diderot, Denis

26.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Brandes, George

29.

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

30.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

32.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

37.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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)

39.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

40.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

41.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

42.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

43.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

46.

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

47.

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

48.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

49.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

50.

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

Howard, Vernon