Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

2.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

3.

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

4.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

7.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

8.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

9.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

10.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

14.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

15.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

20.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

21.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

22.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

25.

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

Adler, Alfred

26.

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

Diderot, Denis

27.

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

28.

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

Hesse, Hermann

29.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

30.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

31.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

33.

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

Merzel, David

34.

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

Stone, W. Clement

35.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

37.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

38.

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.

39.

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

Bible

40.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

44.

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

Halifax, Edward F.