Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Truth

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

5.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

6.

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

Edith Sitwell

7.

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.

8.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

10.

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

Merzel, David

11.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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.

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

14.

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

15.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

16.

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.

17.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

18.

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

Gide, Andre

19.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

21.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

22.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

24.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

28.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

29.

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

Barnes, Leonard

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

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

32.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

33.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

34.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

39.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

43.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

46.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

47.

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

Blake, William

48.

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

Baldwin, James

49.

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

50.

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

Mann, Horace