Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

2.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

3.

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

4.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

5.

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

Tomlin, Lily

6.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

7.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

8.

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

9.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

10.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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.

13.

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

West, Jessamyn

14.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Bible

18.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

19.

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

Edith Sitwell

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

22.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

23.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

24.

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

Augustine, St.

25.

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.

26.

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

Dickens, Charles

27.

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.

28.

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

Pindar

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

36.

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

Davies, Robertson

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

39.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

40.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

41.

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

42.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

43.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

45.

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

Valery, Paul

46.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

47.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

48.

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

49.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

50.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.