Motivational Quotes

Truth

See it like it is!

- Cohen, Herb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

2.

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

3.

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

Baldwin, James

4.

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

Renard, Jules

5.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

6.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

7.

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

Blake, William

8.

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

Dickens, Charles

9.

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

Bach, Richard

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

12.

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

Diderot, Denis

13.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

14.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

15.

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

Clarence Darrow

16.

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

17.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

22.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

23.

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

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

26.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

27.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

28.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

30.

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

Berenson, Bernard

31.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

33.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

35.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

37.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

38.

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

Davies, Robertson

39.

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

Richards, R. Scott

40.

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

Darrow, Clarence

41.

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

42.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

44.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

47.

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

48.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

49.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca