Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

- Bohr, Niels

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

2.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

4.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

6.

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

7.

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

Herbert, Frank

8.

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

Tomlin, Lily

9.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

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

11.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

15.

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

Truman, Harry S

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

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

Lennon, John

21.

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.

22.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

24.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

31.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

32.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

37.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

40.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

41.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

42.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

43.

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

Cronkite, Walter

44.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

45.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

47.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

48.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

49.

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

Pindar

50.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood