Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

12.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

16.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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.

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Tom Bissell

22.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

23.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

25.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

26.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

27.

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

28.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

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

Fuller, Max

32.

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

Low, Albert

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Howard, Vernon

40.

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

Merzel, David

41.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

42.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

46.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

47.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

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.

49.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

50.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare