Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

3.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

4.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

5.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

6.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

15.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

16.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Norris, Frank

18.

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

19.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

21.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

22.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

23.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

24.

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

25.

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

Sontag, Susan

26.

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.

27.

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

Rostand, Jean

28.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

30.

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

Tom Bissell

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

33.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

34.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

35.

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

Augustine, St.

36.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

41.

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

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

44.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

45.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

46.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

47.

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

Einstein, Albert