Motivational Quotes

Truth

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Galileo Galilei

2.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

3.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

4.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

6.

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

7.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

8.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

12.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

13.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

15.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

16.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

19.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

22.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

24.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

29.

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

Richards, R. Scott

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

34.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

35.

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

36.

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

Russell, Utterly

37.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

38.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

39.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

40.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

42.

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

43.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

44.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

45.

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

46.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

47.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

48.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

49.

There is no god higher than truth.