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.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

3.

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

4.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

5.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

6.

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

Hare, J. C.

7.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

9.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

10.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

11.

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

Barnes, Leonard

12.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

13.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

15.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

16.

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

17.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

18.

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

Farnham, Eliza

19.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

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.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

23.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

25.

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

Pascal, Blaise

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

28.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

West, Jessamyn

33.

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

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

35.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

38.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

39.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

40.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

41.

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

Hesse, Hermann

42.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

44.

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

45.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Rosten, Leo

49.

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

Diderot, Denis

50.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.