Motivational Quotes

Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

2.

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

Lennon, John

3.

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

4.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

5.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

6.

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

7.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Dickens, Charles

9.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

12.

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

Herbert Agar

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

22.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Emre, Yumus

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

28.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Truman, Harry S

30.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

32.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

35.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

36.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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.

39.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Whately, Richard

41.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

42.

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

43.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

44.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

45.

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

Edith Sitwell

46.

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

47.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

48.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

49.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

50.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb