Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

4.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

5.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

6.

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

Berlin, Irving

7.

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

Adler, Alfred

8.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

9.

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

10.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

11.

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

Davies, Robertson

12.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

13.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

14.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

15.

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

Herbert Agar

16.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

17.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

18.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

21.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

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

Bach, Richard

23.

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.

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

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

Howard, Vernon

26.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

30.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

31.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

33.

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

Lewis, C. S.

34.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

35.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

38.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

39.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

42.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

43.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

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

45.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

47.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

48.

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

49.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard