Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

2.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

3.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

4.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

5.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

6.

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

Baldwin, James

7.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

8.

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

Emre, Yumus

9.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

16.

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

17.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

18.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

19.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

21.

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

Strachey, Lionel

22.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

23.

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

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

26.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

29.

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.

30.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

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.

33.

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

Hare, J. C.

34.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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.

36.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

38.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

41.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

42.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

43.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

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

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

West, Jessamyn

49.

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

50.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan