Motivational Quotes

Truth

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

2.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

3.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

4.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

5.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

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

7.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

8.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

9.

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

Bible

10.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

11.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

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

14.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

15.

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

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

20.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

21.

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

25.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Strachey, Lionel

27.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

28.

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

29.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

30.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

31.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

34.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Carrel, Alexis

36.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

38.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Lee, Bruce

41.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Zola, Emile

43.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

44.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

45.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

46.

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

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

49.

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.

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