Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

15.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

16.

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

17.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

18.

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

Hesse, Hermann

19.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

20.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

22.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

23.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

26.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Bach, Richard

28.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

29.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

30.

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

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

37.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

38.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Stone, W. Clement

42.

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

43.

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

Clarence Darrow

44.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

45.

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

Truman, Harry S

46.

Truth is reality.