Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

2.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

3.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

4.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

5.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

6.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

7.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

8.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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.

19.

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

Clarence Darrow

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

23.

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)

24.

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

25.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Hare, J. C.

27.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

28.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

31.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

33.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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

35.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

36.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

41.

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