Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

3.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

4.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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

6.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

7.

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

8.

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

Merzel, David

9.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

10.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

11.

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

Penn, William

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

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

Tomlin, Lily

14.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

15.

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

16.

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

Adler, Alfred

17.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

18.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

19.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

22.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

23.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

25.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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

Valery, Paul

27.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

29.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Emre, Yumus

32.

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

33.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

38.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

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

Norris, Frank

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

44.

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