Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

2.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

3.

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

Davies, Robertson

4.

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

5.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

11.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

12.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

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

Lee, Bruce

14.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Whately, Richard

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

21.

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

Renard, Jules

22.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

23.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

24.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

29.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

31.

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

Russell, Utterly

32.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

36.

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

Cronkite, Walter

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

40.

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

41.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

42.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

43.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Pindar

45.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

46.

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

Rosten, Leo

47.

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

48.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Merzel, David

50.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al