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.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

2.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

3.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

4.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

5.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

6.

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

Lee, Bruce

7.

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

Mann, Horace

8.

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)

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

Luther, Martin

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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

11.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

15.

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

Seabury, David

16.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

West, Jessamyn

21.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

22.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

23.

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

Zola, Emile

24.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

25.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

27.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

31.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

34.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

36.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

42.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

43.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

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

Sontag, Susan

46.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

47.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

50.

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

Aristotle