Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

3.

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

Luther, Martin

4.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

5.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Bach, Richard

7.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

8.

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

Whately, Richard

9.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

12.

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

13.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

16.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

17.

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

Adler, Alfred

18.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

19.

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

Fuller, Max

20.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

21.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

22.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

23.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

27.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

29.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

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

35.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

36.

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

37.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

39.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

40.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

41.

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

42.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

44.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

45.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

46.

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

Merzel, David

47.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

48.

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

Mark Twain

49.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

50.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb