Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

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

Richards, R. Scott

5.

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

6.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

7.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

8.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

9.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

12.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

13.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

14.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

15.

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

16.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

17.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

18.

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

Norris, Frank

19.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

20.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

25.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

26.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

27.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

31.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

32.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

37.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

38.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

39.

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.

40.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

41.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

42.

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

43.

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

Hare, J. C.

44.

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

Sontag, Susan

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

47.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

48.

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

49.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

50.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert