Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

3.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

4.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Brandes, George

6.

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

7.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

8.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

12.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

13.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

14.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

15.

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

Galileo Galilei

16.

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

17.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

19.

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

20.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

21.

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

Davies, Robertson

22.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

24.

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

Barnes, Leonard

25.

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

26.

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

27.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

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

Rogers, Will

29.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

30.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

31.

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

32.

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

West, Jessamyn

33.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

34.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

35.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

36.

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

Richards, R. Scott

37.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

39.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

40.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

41.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

45.

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

Valery, Paul

46.

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

47.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

48.

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

Lewis, C. S.

49.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

50.

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