Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

2.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

3.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

4.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

7.

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

8.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

9.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

12.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

13.

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

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

16.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

17.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

20.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

21.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

22.

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

Kahlil Gibran

23.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

24.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

25.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Tomlin, Lily

27.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

28.

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

29.

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

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

33.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

35.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

36.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

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.

38.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

44.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

45.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

46.

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

47.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

48.

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

Rogers, Will

49.

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

Mark Twain

50.

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