Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

2.

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)

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

5.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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.

7.

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

Farnham, Eliza

8.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

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

Truman, Harry S

10.

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

Kersha, Al

11.

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

12.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

15.

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

Mann, Horace

16.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

17.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

18.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

19.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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.

25.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

26.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

31.

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

32.

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

Low, Albert

33.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Brandes, George

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

40.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

43.

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

Kahlil Gibran

44.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

47.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

48.

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

Norris, Frank

49.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

50.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma