Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

3.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

4.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

5.

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

6.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

7.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

8.

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

Truman, Harry S

9.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

10.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

16.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

17.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

18.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

19.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

20.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

21.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

23.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

24.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

26.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

27.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

28.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

29.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Low, Albert

31.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

35.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

37.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

45.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

46.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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