Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Luther, Martin

2.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

3.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

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

Seabury, David

6.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

7.

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

Farnham, Eliza

8.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

9.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

10.

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.

11.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Davies, Robertson

13.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

14.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

16.

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

Berenson, Bernard

17.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

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

21.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

22.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

29.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

30.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

31.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

32.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

35.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

36.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

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

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

40.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

42.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

47.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

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