Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

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

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

11.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

13.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

14.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

West, Jessamyn

16.

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

17.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Hare, J. C.

19.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

20.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

21.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

22.

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

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

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

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Whately, Richard

27.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

30.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

32.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

33.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

35.

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

Fuller, Max

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

Pascal, Blaise

37.

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

38.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

39.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

40.

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

Low, Albert

41.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

44.

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

Merzel, David

45.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

46.

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

47.

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

Rogers, Will

48.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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