Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

2.

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

3.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

4.

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

Tomlin, Lily

5.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

6.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

7.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

8.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

9.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

10.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

11.

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

12.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

13.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

14.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

15.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

16.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

22.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Penn, William

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

26.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

27.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

28.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

West, Jessamyn

31.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

32.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

33.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Strachey, Lionel

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

Howard, Vernon

37.

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

38.

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

Bach, Richard

39.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

45.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

46.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

49.

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

Zola, Emile

50.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)