Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

2.

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

3.

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

Lennon, John

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

6.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

7.

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

Rosten, Leo

8.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

16.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

17.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

18.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

19.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

20.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

22.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

23.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

24.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

25.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

26.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

27.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

32.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

33.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

37.

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

38.

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

Confucius

39.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

42.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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.