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.

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

Lee, Bruce

2.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

3.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

4.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

7.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

10.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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

Davies, Robertson

12.

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

Norris, Frank

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Wilder, Billy

15.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

16.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

19.

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.

20.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

23.

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

24.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

27.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

29.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

30.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

33.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

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

Hare, J. C.

36.

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

37.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

39.

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

Pancoast, Mal

40.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

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

42.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

43.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

44.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott