Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Strachey, Lionel

2.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

3.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

7.

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

Malcolm X

8.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

9.

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

10.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

12.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

13.

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

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Barnes, Leonard

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

18.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

19.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Low, Albert

23.

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

Valery, Paul

24.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

25.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

26.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

27.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

28.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

29.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Edith Sitwell

31.

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

32.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

33.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

34.

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

Wilder, Billy

35.

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.

36.

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

Gide, Andre

37.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

Diderot, Denis

40.

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

Russell, Utterly

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Tomlin, Lily

44.

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)

45.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

46.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

47.

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

48.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville