Motivational Quotes

Truth

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

5.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

6.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

7.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

8.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Emre, Yumus

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

13.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

14.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

15.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

16.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

19.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

22.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

23.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

26.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

28.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

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

31.

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

Dickens, Charles

32.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

33.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

34.

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

35.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

36.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

39.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

40.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

42.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

45.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

46.

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

Bible

47.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

48.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

50.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.