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

1.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

2.

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

Sontag, Susan

3.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

4.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

5.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

Valery, Paul

8.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

9.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

11.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

12.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

14.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

15.

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

Herbert, Frank

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

18.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Wilder, Billy

22.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

23.

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

24.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

30.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

31.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

34.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

35.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

36.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

38.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

39.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

40.

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

Tom Bissell

41.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

44.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

45.

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

Pancoast, Mal

46.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Emre, Yumus

48.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

49.

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

50.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson