Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

2.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

3.

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

Mark Twain

4.

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

5.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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.

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

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Truman, Harry S

11.

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

Zola, Emile

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

14.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

15.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

16.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

17.

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

18.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

19.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

20.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

21.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

22.

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

23.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Dickens, Charles

25.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

26.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

27.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

31.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

33.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

38.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

40.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Berlin, Irving

42.

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

Hesse, Hermann

43.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.