Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

2.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

4.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

5.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

6.

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

7.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

8.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

9.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

10.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

11.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

12.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

16.

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

17.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

18.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

19.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

20.

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

Low, Albert

21.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

22.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

23.

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

Diderot, Denis

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Brandes, George

26.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

32.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

35.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Mann, Horace

41.

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

42.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

43.

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

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

Tomlin, Lily

45.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

46.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.