Motivational Quotes

Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Luther, Martin

2.

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

Bach, Richard

3.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

4.

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

Twain, Mark

5.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

6.

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

Herbert, Frank

7.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

8.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

9.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

10.

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

Clarence Darrow

11.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

12.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

13.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Lewis, C. S.

15.

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

Brandes, George

16.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

17.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

23.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Renard, Jules

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

27.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

28.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

32.

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

Sontag, Susan

33.

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

34.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

35.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

36.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

37.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

38.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

39.

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

Carrel, Alexis

40.

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