Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Farnham, Eliza

3.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

4.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

6.

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

Mann, Horace

7.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

Rosten, Leo

12.

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

13.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

16.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

25.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

27.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

28.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

31.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

32.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

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

Mamet, David

37.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

38.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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.

40.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

41.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

44.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.