Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Davies, Robertson

2.

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

Galileo Galilei

3.

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

4.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

5.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

6.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

8.

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.

9.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

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

11.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

12.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

13.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

14.

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

Wilder, Billy

15.

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

Richards, R. Scott

16.

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

Carrel, Alexis

17.

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

Bible

18.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

19.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

20.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

21.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

23.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

24.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

25.

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

26.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

29.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

30.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Valery, Paul

34.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

35.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

36.

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

Low, Albert

37.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

38.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

39.

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

Penn, William

40.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

41.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.