Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

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

Merzel, David

3.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

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

7.

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

Hesiod

8.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

10.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

13.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

14.

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

Sontag, Susan

15.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Herbert Agar

17.

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

Farnham, Eliza

18.

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

Carrel, Alexis

19.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

20.

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

21.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

22.

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

23.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

25.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

26.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

30.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

31.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

32.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Aristotle

37.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

38.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Davies, Robertson

40.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

41.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

42.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

43.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

44.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

Blake, William

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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

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

49.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

50.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von