Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

2.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

3.

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

Seabury, David

4.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

6.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

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

Carrel, Alexis

8.

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

Norris, Frank

9.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Scott Westerfeld

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

17.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

20.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

21.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Berlin, Irving

24.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

25.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

26.

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

27.

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

West, Jessamyn

28.

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

Renard, Jules

29.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

30.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

31.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

32.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

35.

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

36.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

37.

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

38.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

39.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

40.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

41.

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

42.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Luther, Martin

46.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

47.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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)

50.

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

Twain, Mark