Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

3.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

4.

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

5.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

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

Gide, Andre

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

11.

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

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

15.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Hare, J. C.

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

21.

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

Merzel, David

22.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

30.

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

Valery, Paul

31.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

34.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Berlin, Irving

36.

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

Adler, Alfred

37.

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

Cronkite, Walter

38.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

39.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Tomlin, Lily

41.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

42.

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)

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.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

45.

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