Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

2.

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.

3.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

4.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

5.

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

Galileo Galilei

6.

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

Davies, Robertson

7.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

8.

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

Fuller, Thomas

9.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

10.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

14.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

15.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

18.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

20.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

21.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

34.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

35.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

36.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

39.

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

40.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

41.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

42.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

45.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

46.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

47.

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

48.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

49.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

50.

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

Tomlin, Lily