Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

2.

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

Luther, Martin

3.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

6.

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

Scott Westerfeld

7.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

14.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

15.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

18.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

21.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

22.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

23.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

24.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

30.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

31.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

32.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

34.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

37.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

38.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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.

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

41.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

42.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

44.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Baldwin, James

48.

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

49.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

50.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma