Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Sontag, Susan

2.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

3.

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

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Dickinson, Emily

7.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

10.

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

11.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

12.

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

Berenson, Bernard

13.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

19.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

20.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Howard, Vernon

24.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

25.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

26.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

27.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

29.

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

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

32.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

33.

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.

34.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

36.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Edith Sitwell

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

44.

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