Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

4.

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

Bach, Richard

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Berlin, Irving

7.

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

8.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

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

Camus, Albert

10.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

12.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

13.

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)

14.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

15.

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

Lee, Bruce

16.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

18.

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

Truman, Harry S

19.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Cronkite, Walter

21.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

Tomlin, Lily

23.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

24.

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

25.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

26.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

27.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

29.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

30.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

31.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

32.

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

Renard, Jules

33.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

34.

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

35.

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

Low, Albert

36.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

37.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

38.

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.

39.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

42.

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

Kahlil Gibran

43.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

44.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

45.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

46.

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

Clarence Darrow

47.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

48.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

49.

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

50.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare