Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

3.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Russell, Utterly

5.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

6.

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

Wilder, Billy

7.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

8.

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

9.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Mamet, David

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Rostand, Jean

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

18.

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

Truman, Harry S

19.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

22.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

23.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

24.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

25.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

26.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

27.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Low, Albert

32.

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

33.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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.

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

Hesiod

37.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

38.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

40.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

41.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

45.

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

47.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

48.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

50.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav