Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

3.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

5.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

6.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

7.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

8.

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

9.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

11.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

12.

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

13.

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

Emre, Yumus

14.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

19.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

20.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

25.

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

Russell, Utterly

26.

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

Carrel, Alexis

27.

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

28.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

29.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Low, Albert

31.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

33.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

39.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

40.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

43.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

44.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

45.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

Kahlil Gibran

49.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.

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