Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

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

3.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

4.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

5.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

8.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

9.

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

15.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

17.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

19.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Richards, R. Scott

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Norris, Frank

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

28.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

29.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

30.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

31.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

34.

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

Valery, Paul

35.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Pindar

38.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

39.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

42.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

43.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

44.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

45.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.