Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Valery, Paul

2.

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

3.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

4.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

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

6.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

7.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

9.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

13.

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

14.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

15.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

16.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

17.

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

Fuller, Max

18.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

20.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

21.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

22.

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

Malcolm X

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

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

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

27.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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)

29.

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

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

33.

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

34.

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

Diderot, Denis

35.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

36.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

37.

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

38.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

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

Hare, J. C.

40.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

41.

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

42.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

43.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

44.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

46.

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

47.

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

Rostand, Jean

48.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Camus, Albert

50.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.