Motivational Quotes

Truth

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Sontag, Susan

2.

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

Lewis, C. S.

3.

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

4.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

5.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

8.

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

Wilder, Billy

9.

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

Davies, Robertson

10.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

11.

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

12.

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

West, Jessamyn

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

15.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

16.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Hare, J. C.

19.

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

Strachey, Lionel

20.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

21.

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

Tomlin, Lily

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

24.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

28.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

29.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

30.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

31.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

32.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

34.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

35.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

38.

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

39.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

40.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.