Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Boerhaave, Herman

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

2.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

3.

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

Herbert Agar

4.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

5.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

6.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

7.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

13.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

16.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

17.

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.

18.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

19.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

23.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

24.

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

Diderot, Denis

25.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

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

27.

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

Whately, Richard

28.

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

Clarence Darrow

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.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

35.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

36.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

37.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

38.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

39.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Bible

41.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

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

45.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

Gide, Andre

47.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel