Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth alone wounds.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Herbert, Frank

2.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

3.

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

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

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

Kersha, Al

7.

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

Einstein, Albert

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

11.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

12.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

13.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

14.

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

Russell, Utterly

15.

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

Herbert Agar

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

19.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

21.

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

22.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

26.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

27.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

28.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

Wilder, Billy

30.

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

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

33.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

37.

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

38.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

39.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

40.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

41.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

42.

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

43.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

45.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

46.

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