Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

2.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

3.

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

Herbert Agar

4.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

5.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

11.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

12.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

13.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

West, Jessamyn

16.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

17.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

18.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

19.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

20.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

21.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

22.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

23.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

29.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

Lewis, C. S.

34.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

35.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

36.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

37.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

38.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

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