Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Confucius

2.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

3.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

4.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

5.

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

Rosten, Leo

6.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

7.

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.

8.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

9.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

10.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

11.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Valery, Paul

15.

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

Herbert Agar

16.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

17.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Truman, Harry S

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

Norris, Frank

24.

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

Penn, William

25.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

29.

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

30.

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

Clarence Darrow

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

37.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

38.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

39.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

40.

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

41.

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

Richards, R. Scott

42.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

43.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

44.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.