Motivational Quotes

Truth

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

2.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

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.

4.

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

Epictetus

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

7.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Kahlil Gibran

9.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

12.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

13.

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

Berenson, Bernard

14.

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

15.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

18.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

20.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

21.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

22.

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

23.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

26.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

28.

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

Strachey, Lionel

29.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

30.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

31.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

32.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

33.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

34.

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

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

37.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

38.

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

39.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

43.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

44.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

45.

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

Sontag, Susan

46.

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

Berlin, Irving

47.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

48.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

49.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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

Wilder, Billy