Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Kersha, Al

2.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

3.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

4.

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

Rogers, Will

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Davies, Robertson

8.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

11.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

14.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

15.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

16.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

17.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

18.

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

Fuller, Max

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Renard, Jules

21.

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

22.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

24.

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)

25.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

26.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

27.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

29.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

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

32.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

33.

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

Herbert, Frank

34.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

35.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Cronkite, Walter

39.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Norris, Frank

41.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.