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 pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

3.

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

Voltaire

4.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

5.

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

6.

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

Richards, R. Scott

7.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

8.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

9.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

10.

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

11.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

12.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

13.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

17.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

18.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

19.

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

Berlin, Irving

20.

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

Sontag, Susan

21.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

22.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

26.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Bach, Richard

28.

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.

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Hesse, Hermann

31.

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

Whately, Richard

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

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

37.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

38.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Pindar

41.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Lee, Bruce

43.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

44.

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

45.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Truman, Harry S

49.

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

50.

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.

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