Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

4.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

9.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

10.

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

Howard, Vernon

11.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

12.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

Davies, Robertson

14.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Emre, Yumus

19.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Dickens, Charles

23.

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

Adler, Alfred

24.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

25.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

26.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

27.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

29.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

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

32.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

33.

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

34.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

35.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

36.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

42.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

43.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

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

Seabury, David

48.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

50.

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