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.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

2.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

3.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

6.

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

7.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

8.

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

Bible

9.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

12.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

13.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

18.

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

Berenson, Bernard

19.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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.

22.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Barnes, Leonard

24.

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

Wilder, Billy

25.

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

Pancoast, Mal

26.

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

Bach, Richard

27.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

31.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

35.

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

36.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

37.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

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

Davies, Robertson

40.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

41.

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.

42.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

43.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Hesse, Hermann

45.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

46.

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

47.

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

West, Jessamyn

48.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

50.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier