Motivational Quotes

Truth

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Diderot, Denis

3.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Penn, William

5.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

6.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

13.

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

14.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

15.

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

Emre, Yumus

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Strachey, Lionel

20.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

23.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

24.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Rosten, Leo

28.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

29.

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

Fuller, Max

30.

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.

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

33.

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

34.

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

Brandes, George

35.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

36.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

37.

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

38.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

39.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

40.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

41.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

42.

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

Scott Westerfeld

43.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

44.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.