Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Luther, Martin

2.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

3.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

4.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Lewis, C. S.

10.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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

Mamet, David

13.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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

Bach, Richard

17.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

18.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

19.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

22.

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.

23.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

28.

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

Adler, Alfred

29.

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

Herbert Agar

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

32.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

36.

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

37.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

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

39.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Tom Bissell

41.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

42.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Baldwin, James

47.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

48.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

49.

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

Voltaire

50.

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