Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

2.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

3.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

4.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

5.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

7.

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

8.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

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

Cronkite, Walter

11.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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.

14.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

15.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

18.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

21.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

22.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Herbert Agar

27.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

28.

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

Tom Bissell

29.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

30.

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

Richards, R. Scott

31.

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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

41.

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

Malcolm X

42.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Emre, Yumus

45.

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

Davies, Robertson

46.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

50.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)