Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

3.

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

Renard, Jules

4.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

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

Emre, Yumus

8.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

9.

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

10.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

14.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

15.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

17.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

20.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

24.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

27.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

30.

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

32.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

33.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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)

37.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

38.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

39.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

42.

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

Lennon, John

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

45.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

46.

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

Scott Westerfeld

47.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

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

Penn, William

50.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb