Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Galileo Galilei

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

3.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

4.

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

5.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

6.

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

7.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

8.

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.

9.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

13.

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

Carrel, Alexis

14.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

18.

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.

19.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Pascal, Blaise

23.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

Brandes, George

27.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

28.

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

Truman, Harry S

29.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

30.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

31.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

32.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

33.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

34.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

35.

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

Lewis, C. S.

36.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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

38.

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

Herbert Agar

39.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

40.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

44.

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

Hesse, Hermann

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.