Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Clarence Darrow

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

3.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

4.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

5.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

6.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

7.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

8.

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.

9.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

10.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

11.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

12.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Whately, Richard

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

19.

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

20.

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

Howard, Vernon

21.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

23.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

25.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Berlin, Irving

29.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

30.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

31.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

32.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

35.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

41.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Bible

43.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

44.

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

Truman, Harry S

45.

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

Blake, William

46.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

47.

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

Tom Bissell

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

50.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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