Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Baldwin, James

3.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

4.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

5.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

6.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

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

8.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

9.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

10.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

16.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

17.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

21.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

22.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

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

Howard, Vernon

24.

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

25.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

27.

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)

28.

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

Brandes, George

29.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

30.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

31.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

Pindar

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

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

Low, Albert

39.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

40.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

41.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

44.

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