Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

2.

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

Bach, Richard

3.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

8.

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

Butler, Samuel

9.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

10.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

14.

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

Edith Sitwell

15.

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

Davies, Robertson

16.

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

17.

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

Russell, Utterly

18.

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

Howard, Vernon

19.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

20.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

21.

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

22.

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

Darrow, Clarence

23.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

24.

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

Mann, Horace

25.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

27.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

28.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

31.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

33.

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

34.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

35.

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

Zola, Emile

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

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

38.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

39.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

40.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

42.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Low, Albert

44.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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