Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

3.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

6.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

7.

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

Richards, R. Scott

8.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

9.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

10.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

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

12.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

16.

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

Low, Albert

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

20.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

21.

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

22.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

23.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

24.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

26.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

27.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

28.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

31.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

32.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

33.

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

Valery, Paul

34.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

35.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

39.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

40.

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

Cronkite, Walter

41.

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

42.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

45.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

48.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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