Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Clarence Darrow

4.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

5.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

6.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

7.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

8.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

9.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

10.

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

11.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

12.

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

13.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

14.

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

15.

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

Merzel, David

16.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

17.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

20.

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

Wilder, Billy

21.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

22.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

28.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

29.

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

30.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

32.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

33.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

35.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

36.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Norris, Frank

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

41.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

42.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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.

45.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

46.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

49.

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.

50.

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