Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

4.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

5.

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

Zola, Emile

6.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

7.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

8.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

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

16.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

17.

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

Adler, Alfred

18.

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

19.

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

Mark Twain

20.

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

Whately, Richard

21.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Low, Albert

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

25.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

30.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

31.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

33.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

38.

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

Truman, Harry S

39.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

40.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

43.

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

Truman, Harry S

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

47.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.