Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

2.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

3.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

4.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

6.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

7.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

8.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

15.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

16.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

18.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

19.

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

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

25.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

26.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

27.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

28.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

33.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

34.

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

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

37.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

39.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

42.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

43.

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

Galileo Galilei

44.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

45.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

49.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

50.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert