Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Malcolm X

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11.

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

12.

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

Berenson, Bernard

13.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

14.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

Valery, Paul

17.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Diderot, Denis

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

23.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

24.

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

Strachey, Lionel

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

27.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

28.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

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)

30.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

35.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

40.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

41.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

42.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

43.

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

44.

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

Hare, J. C.

45.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon