Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Low, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

2.

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

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.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

5.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

6.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

14.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

15.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

18.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

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

Kahlil Gibran

21.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

23.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

24.

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

Tomlin, Lily

25.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

29.

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

West, Jessamyn

30.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

31.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

32.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

33.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

34.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

35.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

37.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

39.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

41.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

44.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

45.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

46.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.