Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

4.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

5.

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

Epictetus

6.

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

7.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

8.

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

9.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

11.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

12.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

18.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

19.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

20.

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)

21.

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

Hesse, Hermann

22.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

24.

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

Zola, Emile

25.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Clarence Darrow

27.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

28.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

29.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

31.

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

Sontag, Susan

32.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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.

35.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

36.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

37.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

39.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

40.

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

Malcolm X

41.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

44.

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

Barnes, Leonard

45.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

46.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

47.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

49.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Renard, Jules