Motivational Quotes

Truth

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Howard, Vernon

3.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

4.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

5.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

6.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

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

8.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

9.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

11.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

12.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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

Penn, William

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

20.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

23.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

24.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

25.

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

Zola, Emile

26.

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

27.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

28.

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)

29.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

30.

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

Herbert Agar

31.

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

32.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

33.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

35.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

36.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

37.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

38.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

42.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

45.

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

46.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

47.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare