Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

- Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Stone, W. Clement

2.

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

Mamet, David

3.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

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

Seabury, David

5.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

6.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

7.

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

Rosten, Leo

8.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Galileo Galilei

10.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

11.

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

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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.

14.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

19.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

27.

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

28.

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

Valery, Paul

29.

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

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

33.

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.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

37.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

42.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

43.

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

Augustine, St.

44.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

45.

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

46.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

48.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

49.

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