Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

2.

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.

3.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

5.

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

6.

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

7.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

9.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

11.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

12.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

13.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

14.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

17.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Pindar

24.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

25.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

27.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

28.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

30.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

31.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

32.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

33.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

34.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

35.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

36.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

37.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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