Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

2.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

3.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

4.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

5.

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

Hare, J. C.

6.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

7.

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

8.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

10.

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

Lewis, C. S.

11.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

12.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

13.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

14.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

15.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

16.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

19.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Seabury, David

23.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

25.

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

26.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

27.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

28.

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

29.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

30.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

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

Richards, R. Scott

32.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Davies, Robertson

35.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

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

37.

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

Mark Twain

38.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

39.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Penn, William

43.

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

Truman, Harry S

44.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

48.

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.