Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

2.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

3.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

5.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

7.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

9.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

11.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

12.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

13.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

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

16.

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

Carrel, Alexis

17.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

18.

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

Walters, Hellmut

19.

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

20.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

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

24.

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

Berlin, Irving

25.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

26.

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

27.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

28.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

29.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

30.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

34.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

35.

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

Howard, Vernon

36.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

40.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

41.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

42.

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

43.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

44.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

45.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

46.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

47.

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.

48.

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

Renard, Jules

49.

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

Davies, Robertson

50.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham