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.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

2.

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

Einstein, Albert

3.

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

Russell, Utterly

4.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

5.

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

Darrow, Clarence

6.

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.

7.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

10.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

14.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

15.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Penn, William

20.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

21.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

22.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

24.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

25.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

28.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

30.

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

31.

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

Tom Bissell

32.

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

Clarence Darrow

33.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

34.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

40.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

42.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

44.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

47.

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

Zola, Emile

48.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

49.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

50.

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