Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

2.

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

Farnham, Eliza

3.

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

4.

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

Herbert, Frank

5.

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

Zola, Emile

6.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

11.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

12.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

13.

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

14.

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

Lee, Bruce

15.

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

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

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

19.

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

Diderot, Denis

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

22.

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

Low, Albert

23.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

24.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

25.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

28.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

32.

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

33.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

34.

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

35.

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

Mamet, David

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

43.

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

44.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

45.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

46.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

47.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

48.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

49.

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

50.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine