Motivational Quotes

Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Stevens, Wallace

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

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

Blake, William

3.

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

Zola, Emile

4.

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

5.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

6.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

8.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

9.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

15.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

17.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

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

20.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

21.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

22.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

23.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

24.

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

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

26.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

27.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

28.

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

West, Jessamyn

29.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

30.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

31.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

32.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

33.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

35.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

37.

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

38.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

40.

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

41.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

43.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

44.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

45.

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.

46.

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

Pindar

47.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.