Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

10.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

11.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

12.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

13.

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

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

16.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Mann, Horace

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

21.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

22.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

23.

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

Emre, Yumus

24.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

25.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

26.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

30.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

32.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

33.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

34.

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

Diderot, Denis

35.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle