Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

2.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

4.

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

Barnes, Leonard

5.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

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

8.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

12.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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.

16.

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.

17.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

21.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

22.

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

Fuller, Max

23.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

25.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

33.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

34.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

35.

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

Davies, Robertson

36.

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

Whately, Richard

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

38.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

39.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

41.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

42.

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

Bible

43.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

46.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

47.

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

48.

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

Hesse, Hermann

49.

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

Twain, Mark

50.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence