Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

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.

4.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Epictetus

7.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

8.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

9.

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

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

Richards, R. Scott

11.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

12.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

18.

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

19.

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

Berenson, Bernard

20.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

22.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Berlin, Irving

25.

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

26.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

32.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

33.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.