Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

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

Emre, Yumus

7.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

8.

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

9.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

10.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

12.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

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

Mann, Horace

21.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

22.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

Kahlil Gibran

25.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

26.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Hare, J. C.

30.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

31.

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

32.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

33.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

34.

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

Strachey, Lionel

35.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

36.

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

Rogers, Will

37.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

38.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

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

40.

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)

41.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

43.

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

44.

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

Luther, Martin

45.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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