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.

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

Baldwin, James

2.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

3.

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

Berlin, Irving

4.

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

Howard, Vernon

5.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

6.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

7.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

8.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

9.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

13.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

14.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

Seabury, David

16.

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

Farnham, Eliza

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

Herbert, Frank

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Diderot, Denis

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

25.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

26.

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

27.

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

Gide, Andre

28.

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

29.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

31.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

33.

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

Wilder, Billy

34.

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

35.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

36.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

37.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

38.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

39.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

42.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

43.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

44.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

45.

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

Pindar

46.

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

47.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

48.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

49.

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

Clarence Darrow

50.

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