Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

Mark Twain

4.

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

Russell, Utterly

5.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

6.

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

Gide, Andre

7.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

8.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

9.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

10.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

11.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

12.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

14.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

15.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

16.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

Edith Sitwell

19.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

20.

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

Berlin, Irving

21.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

22.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

Kahlil Gibran

29.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

30.

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

31.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

34.

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

35.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

36.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

37.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

38.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

42.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

46.

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

Dickens, Charles

47.

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

Herbert Agar

48.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.