Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

2.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

3.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

4.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

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

6.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

7.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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.

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

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

14.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

16.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

17.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

Norris, Frank

19.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

20.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

23.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

28.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

29.

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

30.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

32.

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

Mamet, David

33.

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

34.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

35.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

36.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

42.

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

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

Howard, Vernon

45.

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

46.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

47.

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.

48.

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

Farnham, Eliza

49.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

50.

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