Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Einstein, Albert

3.

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

4.

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

Emre, Yumus

5.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

6.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

7.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

8.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

9.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

11.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

12.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

13.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

14.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

15.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

16.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

19.

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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

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)

25.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

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

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

31.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

38.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

41.

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

Barnes, Leonard

42.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Clarence Darrow

44.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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)

49.

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

Merzel, David

50.

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

Hall, Calvin S.