Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Pindar

5.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

6.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

8.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

10.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

11.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

12.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

13.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

14.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Davies, Robertson

17.

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

Truman, Harry S

18.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

19.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

20.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

21.

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

Carrel, Alexis

22.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

23.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

25.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

31.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

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

39.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Lennon, John

44.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

45.

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

Cronkite, Walter

46.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

47.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

48.

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

Berenson, Bernard

49.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

50.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.