Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

2.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

4.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

5.

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.

6.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

7.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

8.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

9.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

21.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

22.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

23.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

24.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

25.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

26.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

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

Malcolm X

28.

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

Dickens, Charles

29.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

30.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

31.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

32.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

33.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

34.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

35.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

36.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

37.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Kersha, Al

39.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

41.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

42.

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

Seabury, David

43.

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

Emre, Yumus

44.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

45.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

46.

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

Luther, Martin

47.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

48.

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

Zola, Emile

49.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman