Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Whately, Richard

3.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

8.

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

9.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

14.

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

Herbert Agar

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

18.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

19.

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

20.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

25.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Hesse, Hermann

28.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

30.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

31.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

32.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

34.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

35.

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

Pancoast, Mal

36.

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.

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

39.

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

40.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel