Motivational Quotes

Truth

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Mamet, David

3.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

4.

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

Adler, Alfred

5.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

6.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

7.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

Zola, Emile

10.

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

Clarence Darrow

11.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

13.

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

14.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Seabury, David

16.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

17.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

19.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

20.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

24.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

25.

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

26.

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

Davies, Robertson

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

Renard, Jules

30.

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

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

36.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

37.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

38.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

39.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

40.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

41.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.