Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

4.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

5.

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

Mann, Horace

6.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

8.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

10.

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

Pancoast, Mal

11.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

12.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

13.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

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

Emre, Yumus

16.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

17.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

18.

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

Kersha, Al

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

21.

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

West, Jessamyn

22.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

23.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

24.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

25.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

30.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

34.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

35.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

36.

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

Hesse, Hermann

37.

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

Seabury, David

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

44.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

45.

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

Berlin, Irving

46.

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

47.

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

Walters, Hellmut

48.

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

49.

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

Kahlil Gibran

50.

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

Dickens, Charles