Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Renard, Jules

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

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

Lewis, C. S.

5.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

6.

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

Herbert, Frank

7.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

8.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

9.

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Valery, Paul

13.

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

14.

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

Darrow, Clarence

15.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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.

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

Barnes, Leonard

18.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

25.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

27.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

28.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

29.

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

Whately, Richard

30.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

31.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

32.

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

Edith Sitwell

33.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

34.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

35.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

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

Low, Albert

38.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

39.

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

Davies, Robertson

40.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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)

44.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

45.

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

46.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Bach, Richard

48.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S