Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Farnham, Eliza

3.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

4.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

5.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

6.

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

7.

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

Lee, Bruce

8.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

9.

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

10.

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

Tom Bissell

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

15.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

16.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

17.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

West, Jessamyn

21.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

22.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

23.

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

24.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

25.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

33.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

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

36.

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

Valery, Paul

37.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

45.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.