Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

3.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

4.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

5.

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

Bible

6.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

7.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

8.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

14.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

15.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Farnham, Eliza

18.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

20.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Kahlil Gibran

22.

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

23.

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

Berlin, Irving

24.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

25.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

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

Hare, J. C.

42.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

43.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

44.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

45.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

Brandes, George

47.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

48.

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

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

Herbert, Frank