Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

3.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

5.

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

Edith Sitwell

6.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

7.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

8.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

9.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

10.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

14.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

15.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

16.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

17.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

20.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

24.

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

Fuller, Max

25.

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)

26.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

27.

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

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

30.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

31.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

33.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

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

Richards, R. Scott

37.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

38.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

41.

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

West, Jessamyn

42.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

43.

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

Norris, Frank

44.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.