Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

5.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

6.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

7.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

9.

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

10.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

11.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

12.

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

13.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

15.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

16.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

Herbert, Frank

20.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

21.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Kahlil Gibran

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Lewis, C. S.

33.

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

34.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Russell, Utterly

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

38.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

39.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

40.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

41.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

42.

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

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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