Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

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

4.

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

Davies, Robertson

5.

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

Valery, Paul

6.

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

Penn, William

7.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

8.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

9.

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

Hare, J. C.

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Edith Sitwell

17.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

18.

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)

19.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

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

Low, Albert

21.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

22.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

23.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

24.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

25.

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

Gide, Andre

26.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

27.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

28.

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

29.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

31.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

36.

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

37.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

40.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

41.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

42.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle