Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Barnes, Leonard

2.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

3.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Mann, Horace

5.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

6.

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

Pindar

7.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

9.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

10.

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

Low, Albert

11.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

12.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

13.

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

14.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

15.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

18.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

20.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

22.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

23.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

24.

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

25.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

26.

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

Davies, Robertson

27.

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

Renard, Jules

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

32.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

37.

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

Merzel, David

38.

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

39.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

41.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

42.

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

Pancoast, Mal

43.

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

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

47.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.