Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

3.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

4.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

5.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

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

Pindar

8.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

9.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Tomlin, Lily

12.

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.

13.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

14.

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

15.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

16.

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.

17.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Herbert Agar

19.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

20.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

21.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

22.

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

23.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

25.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

26.

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

27.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Clarence Darrow

31.

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)

32.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

33.

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

Russell, Utterly

34.

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

Hare, J. C.

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

37.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

38.

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

39.

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

Walters, Hellmut

40.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

42.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.