Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

2.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

3.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

4.

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

5.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

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

Norris, Frank

8.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

9.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

10.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

11.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

13.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

14.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Diderot, Denis

17.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

19.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Howard, Vernon

24.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Valery, Paul

31.

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

Mann, Horace

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

37.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

43.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.