Motivational Quotes

Truth

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

2.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

3.

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)

4.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

5.

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

6.

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

Low, Albert

7.

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

Kahlil Gibran

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

10.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

11.

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

12.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

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

Norris, Frank

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Rosten, Leo

18.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

19.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

20.

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.

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

Berenson, Bernard

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

27.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

29.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

32.

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

Mamet, David

33.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Renard, Jules

38.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

40.

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

Russell, Utterly

41.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

42.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

43.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

45.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

46.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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