Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

2.

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

3.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

4.

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

5.

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

Rosten, Leo

6.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

7.

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

Rogers, Will

8.

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

Berlin, Irving

9.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

13.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

15.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

18.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

19.

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

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

Truman, Harry S

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

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

Low, Albert

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

25.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

30.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

31.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

32.

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.

33.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

34.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

36.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

47.

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

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

Birmingham, Wayne