Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Russell, Utterly

2.

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

Berlin, Irving

3.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

5.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

7.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

8.

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

Farnham, Eliza

9.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

10.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

12.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

14.

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

Diderot, Denis

15.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

16.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

17.

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

18.

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

Scott Westerfeld

19.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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.

21.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

24.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

25.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

30.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

31.

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)

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

34.

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

35.

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

Hare, J. C.

36.

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

37.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Low, Albert

39.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

See it like it is!