Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

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

6.

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

Lowell, James Russell

7.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

8.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

9.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

10.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

12.

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

13.

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

Davies, Robertson

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

17.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

19.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

20.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

22.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Herbert, Frank

27.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

28.

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

Galileo Galilei

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

31.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

32.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

36.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Low, Albert

38.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

40.

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

Lewis, C. S.

41.

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

Clarence Darrow

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

44.

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

45.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

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

Berlin, Irving

48.

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

Hesse, Hermann

49.

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