Motivational Quotes

Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

8.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

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

13.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

15.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

17.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Richards, R. Scott

19.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

Sontag, Susan

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

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

25.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

26.

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

Clarence Darrow

27.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

29.

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

30.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

31.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

32.

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

33.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

34.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

36.

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

37.

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

Wilder, Billy

38.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

39.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

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

Strachey, Lionel

44.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

45.

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