Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Camus, Albert

2.

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

Barnes, Leonard

3.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

4.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

5.

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

Truman, Harry S

6.

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

7.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

9.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

10.

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

Wilder, Billy

11.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

12.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Emre, Yumus

15.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

16.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Clarence Darrow

21.

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

22.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

23.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

24.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

28.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

31.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

32.

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

33.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

34.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

36.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

38.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

39.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

44.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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)

47.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

48.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

Truth is always the strongest argument.