Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Renard, Jules

2.

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

3.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

4.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

5.

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

West, Jessamyn

6.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

7.

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

8.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

9.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

10.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

12.

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

Herbert Agar

13.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

16.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

17.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

18.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

19.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

20.

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

Zola, Emile

21.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

22.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

23.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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)

27.

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

Mamet, David

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

30.

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

Berenson, Bernard

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

35.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

36.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

37.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

40.

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

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

45.

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

46.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

47.

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

48.

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

Blake, William

49.

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

50.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell