Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

7.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

9.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

10.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

11.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

13.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

Carrel, Alexis

15.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

16.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Tomlin, Lily

21.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

22.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

23.

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

Berenson, Bernard

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Mamet, David

26.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

27.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

33.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

Walters, Hellmut

35.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Rosten, Leo

38.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

39.

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

40.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

42.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

44.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

46.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

47.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

48.

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

Hesse, Hermann

49.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

50.

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