Motivational Quotes

Truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

2.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

3.

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

Low, Albert

4.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

10.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

11.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Hare, J. C.

13.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

17.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

18.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

19.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

20.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

21.

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

Stone, W. Clement

22.

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

Emre, Yumus

23.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

24.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

25.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

26.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

27.

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

28.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

29.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

34.

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

Carrel, Alexis

35.

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

36.

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

Adler, Alfred

37.

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

38.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

39.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

40.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

41.

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

42.

See it like it is!