Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

2.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

3.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

4.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

5.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

6.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

8.

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

Malcolm X

9.

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

Rosten, Leo

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

12.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

13.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

14.

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

Sontag, Susan

15.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

16.

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

17.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

18.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

19.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Hare, J. C.

23.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

24.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

27.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

28.

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

Barnes, Leonard

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Penn, William

31.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

32.

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

Strachey, Lionel

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

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

Herbert Agar

35.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

36.

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

37.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

39.

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

Seabury, David

40.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.