Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

4.

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

Seabury, David

5.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

8.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

13.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

14.

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

Bible

15.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

16.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

17.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Augustine, St.

19.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

20.

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

21.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

23.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

26.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

27.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

28.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

29.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

32.

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

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Renard, Jules

35.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

36.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

37.

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

38.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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

Davies, Robertson

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Penn, William

44.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

47.

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

48.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

49.

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

50.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia