Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

2.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

5.

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

Butler, Samuel

6.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

7.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

8.

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

9.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

12.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Kahlil Gibran

17.

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

Low, Albert

18.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

19.

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

20.

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

21.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

22.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

Wilder, Billy

26.

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

Lewis, C. S.

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

29.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

35.

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

Darrow, Clarence

36.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

39.

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

40.

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

41.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.