Motivational Quotes

Truth

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

2.

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

Brandes, George

3.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

4.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

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

6.

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

Joubert, Joseph

7.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

8.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

15.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

18.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

19.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

20.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

21.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

22.

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

Herbert, Frank

23.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

25.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Walters, Hellmut

28.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

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

30.

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

Tomlin, Lily

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

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

Rostand, Jean

34.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

35.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

40.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

41.

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

Galileo Galilei

42.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

43.

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

44.

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

45.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

46.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

47.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

48.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.