Motivational Quotes

Truth

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

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

Aristotle

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

10.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

12.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

13.

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

Valery, Paul

14.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

15.

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

Pancoast, Mal

16.

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

Tom Bissell

17.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

18.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Clarence Darrow

22.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

25.

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

Herbert, Frank

26.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

27.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

28.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

29.

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

30.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

33.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

34.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

35.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

36.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

39.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

40.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

41.

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

Russell, Utterly

42.

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

43.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

45.

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

46.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

48.

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.

Hsueh-Dou

49.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

50.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von