Motivational Quotes

Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

2.

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

Seabury, David

3.

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

4.

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

Adler, Alfred

5.

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.

6.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

Lewis, C. S.

8.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

9.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

13.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

14.

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

Mamet, David

15.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

16.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

17.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

18.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

23.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

24.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

26.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

27.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

28.

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

Truman, Harry S

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

31.

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

32.

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

West, Jessamyn

33.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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)

36.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

38.

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

Hare, J. C.

39.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

40.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

41.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Rosten, Leo

46.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

49.

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

50.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa