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.

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

2.

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

Darrow, Clarence

3.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

4.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

5.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Davies, Robertson

7.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

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

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

13.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

14.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Whately, Richard

16.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

17.

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

Confucius

18.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Tom Bissell

20.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

21.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

27.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

West, Jessamyn

30.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

31.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

32.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

40.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

45.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

46.

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

47.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

48.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

49.

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.

50.

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.