Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

10.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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)

14.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

15.

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

16.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

18.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

19.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

21.

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

22.

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

Rostand, Jean

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

Walters, Hellmut

26.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

27.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

30.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

31.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

32.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

33.

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

34.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

35.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

36.

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

37.

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

Hare, J. C.

38.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

50.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.