Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

2.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

3.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

4.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

5.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

6.

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

Barnes, Leonard

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

9.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

10.

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

11.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

12.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

West, Jessamyn

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

18.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

19.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Edith Sitwell

22.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

24.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

25.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

26.

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

Mamet, David

27.

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

Low, Albert

28.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

34.

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

35.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

36.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

38.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

39.

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

40.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

41.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

42.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

43.

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