Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

2.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

3.

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

4.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

7.

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

Low, Albert

8.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

10.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

11.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

16.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

29.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

30.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

31.

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.

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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)

36.

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

37.

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

Pindar

38.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

42.

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

Adler, Alfred

43.

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

Davies, Robertson

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

48.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

50.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.