Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

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.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Zola, Emile

4.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

6.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

8.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

9.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Adler, Alfred

12.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

13.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Galileo Galilei

16.

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

17.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

18.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

19.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

20.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

24.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

29.

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

Emre, Yumus

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

32.

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

Stone, W. Clement

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Seabury, David

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

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

Whately, Richard

39.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

40.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

41.

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

Sontag, Susan

42.

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

43.

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

Rogers, Will

44.

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

Penn, William

45.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Hare, J. C.

48.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

50.

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