Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Pindar

2.

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

Brandes, George

3.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

6.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

7.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

8.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

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

Zola, Emile

11.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

12.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

14.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

16.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

17.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Confucius

19.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

20.

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

Wilder, Billy

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

23.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

24.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Mann, Horace

26.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

27.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

33.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

41.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

43.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

48.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.