Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Bach, Richard

2.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

3.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

6.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

7.

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

Herbert Agar

8.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

9.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

15.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

16.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

17.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

18.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

20.

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)

21.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

22.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

Clarence Darrow

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

26.

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

Kahlil Gibran

27.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

29.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

30.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

33.

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

34.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

35.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Carrel, Alexis

38.

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

Fuller, Max

39.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

40.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

43.

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

Pindar

44.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Russell, Utterly

47.

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

48.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

49.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

50.

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

Einstein, Albert