Motivational Quotes

Truth

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

2.

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

Truman, Harry S

3.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

7.

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

Epictetus

8.

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

Confucius

9.

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

Valery, Paul

10.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

12.

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

13.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

14.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

18.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

19.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

20.

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)

21.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

22.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

23.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

24.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

Merzel, David

27.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

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

Camus, Albert

31.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

32.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

33.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

34.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Kahlil Gibran

43.

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

44.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

46.

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

47.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

49.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.