Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Barnes, Leonard

3.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

4.

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

Davies, Robertson

5.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

6.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

7.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

8.

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

9.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

12.

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

13.

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

14.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Tom Bissell

17.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

18.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

20.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

21.

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

22.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

23.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Low, Albert

26.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

29.

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

Mann, Horace

30.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

36.

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

Richards, R. Scott

37.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

40.

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

Herbert Agar

41.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Valery, Paul

44.

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

Dickens, Charles

45.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

46.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

47.

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

Penn, William

48.

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

Berenson, Bernard

49.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

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