Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

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.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

5.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

6.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

7.

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

8.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

9.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

10.

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

11.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

12.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

13.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

16.

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

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

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

20.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

21.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

22.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

23.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

24.

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

25.

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

Mark Twain

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

30.

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

Pindar

31.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

32.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

33.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

West, Jessamyn

35.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

36.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

37.

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

Gide, Andre

38.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

39.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

45.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

46.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

49.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

50.

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