Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

2.

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

3.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

4.

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

Stone, W. Clement

5.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

6.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

7.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

8.

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

9.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

10.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

11.

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)

12.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

14.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

15.

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

16.

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

Truman, Harry S

17.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

18.

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

19.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Bach, Richard

21.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

22.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

26.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

27.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

28.

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

29.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

32.

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

Confucius

33.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

34.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

36.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

38.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

Dickens, Charles

42.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

43.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

44.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

46.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

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

48.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

49.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

50.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman