Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

2.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

8.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

9.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

10.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

17.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

21.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

22.

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

Truman, Harry S

23.

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

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

26.

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

Pindar

27.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

28.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

29.

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

30.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

31.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

32.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

33.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

34.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

35.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

36.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

37.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

38.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

39.

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

West, Jessamyn

40.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

41.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

44.

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

Edith Sitwell

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

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

47.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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

Walters, Hellmut

49.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

50.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.