Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

3.

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

4.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

5.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

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

Galileo Galilei

8.

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

Mann, Horace

9.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

17.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

18.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

20.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

21.

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

Fuller, Max

22.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Strachey, Lionel

24.

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

Diderot, Denis

35.

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

Penn, William

36.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

37.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

38.

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

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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

Lewis, C. S.

42.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

44.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

45.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

46.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire