Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

- Brittain, Vera

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

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

4.

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

Sontag, Susan

5.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

6.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

8.

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

Darrow, Clarence

9.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

11.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

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)

14.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

15.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

18.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

19.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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)

22.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

23.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

27.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

28.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

31.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

32.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

34.

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

Low, Albert

35.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

36.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

37.

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.

Bohr, Niels

38.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

39.

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

Tom Bissell

40.

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

Rostand, Jean

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

43.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

45.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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.