Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Edith Sitwell

2.

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

Mark Twain

3.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

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

5.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

6.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

7.

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

Baldwin, James

8.

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

9.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

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

Berlin, Irving

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

16.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

17.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

18.

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

19.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

20.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Emre, Yumus

22.

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

Dickens, Charles

23.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

24.

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

Low, Albert

25.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

28.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Renard, Jules

30.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

31.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

35.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

38.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

39.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

40.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

41.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

42.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

44.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

46.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

47.

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

48.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson