Motivational Quotes

Truth

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

2.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

3.

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

Darrow, Clarence

4.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

5.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Bible

11.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

Diderot, Denis

14.

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

15.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

20.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

21.

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

22.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

24.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

28.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

29.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

32.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

33.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

36.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

37.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

38.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

Tom Bissell

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

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

Edith Sitwell

48.

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

49.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

50.

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

Walters, Hellmut