Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

3.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

5.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

6.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

8.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

9.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

10.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

11.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

13.

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

14.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

16.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

18.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

21.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

22.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

25.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

27.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

Berenson, Bernard

32.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

37.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

40.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

41.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

42.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

43.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

44.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

45.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

46.

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

47.

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

Rostand, Jean

48.

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

49.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

50.

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)