Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

3.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

4.

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

5.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

6.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Rostand, Jean

8.

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

9.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

10.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

11.

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

Howard, Vernon

12.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

15.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

18.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

21.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

22.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Confucius

29.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

30.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

31.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

32.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

33.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

34.

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

Mann, Horace

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

38.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

39.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

40.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

41.

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

42.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

43.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

44.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

47.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

48.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

49.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

50.

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