Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

2.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

3.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

4.

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

Edith Sitwell

5.

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

6.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

7.

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

Cronkite, Walter

8.

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

Rogers, Will

9.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

12.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

13.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

14.

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

Lee, Bruce

15.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

16.

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

17.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

18.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

19.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

20.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

West, Jessamyn

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

27.

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

Malcolm X

28.

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

29.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

35.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

36.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

39.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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

Mark Twain

41.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

43.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

46.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

47.

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

Truman, Harry S

48.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.