Motivational Quotes

Truth

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

2.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

4.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

5.

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

6.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

9.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

12.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Kahlil Gibran

14.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

15.

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

Howard, Vernon

16.

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

West, Jessamyn

17.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

18.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Seabury, David

20.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

22.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

23.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Walters, Hellmut

27.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

30.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

33.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

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

36.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

37.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

38.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

40.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

41.

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

42.

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

Adler, Alfred

43.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

47.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

48.

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

Kersha, Al

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.

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

Rosten, Leo