Motivational Quotes

Truth

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

3.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

4.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

5.

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

Scott Westerfeld

6.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

7.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

8.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

10.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

12.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

13.

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.

14.

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

Davies, Robertson

15.

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

16.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

17.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

18.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

19.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

22.

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

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

Lee, Bruce

26.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

31.

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

32.

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

Confucius

33.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

36.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

37.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

38.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

39.

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

Scott Westerfeld

40.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Gide, Andre

45.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

46.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

48.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

49.

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

50.

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

Blake, William