Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

2.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

3.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

5.

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

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

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

Whately, Richard

8.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

9.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

13.

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

14.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

19.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

21.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

22.

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

23.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

24.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

25.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

30.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

31.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

32.

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.

33.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

34.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

35.

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

Diderot, Denis

36.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

37.

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