Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

4.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

7.

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

Bach, Richard

8.

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

9.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

16.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

17.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

18.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

19.

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.

20.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

21.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

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

23.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

24.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

25.

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

26.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

29.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

Adler, Alfred

33.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

34.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

35.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

36.

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

Tom Bissell

37.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Clarence Darrow

40.

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

41.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

42.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

43.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

44.

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