Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

2.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

4.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

5.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

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

8.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

9.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

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

Carrel, Alexis

12.

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

Farnham, Eliza

13.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

14.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

Hare, J. C.

16.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

17.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

18.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

19.

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

20.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

21.

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

Stone, W. Clement

22.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

23.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

28.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

29.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

30.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

31.

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

Gide, Andre

32.

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

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Berenson, Bernard

36.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

37.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

38.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Augustine, St.

44.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

45.

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

46.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

47.

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

Penn, William

48.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

49.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

50.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James