Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

2.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

3.

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

4.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

5.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

6.

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

7.

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

Mann, Horace

8.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

9.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

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

Lewis, C. S.

13.

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

Wilder, Billy

14.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

15.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

19.

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

20.

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

Herbert Agar

21.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

22.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Berenson, Bernard

26.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

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

Merzel, David

28.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

29.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

30.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

32.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Richards, R. Scott

36.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

39.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

40.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

41.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

42.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

46.

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.

47.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

48.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

49.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

50.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood