Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Boerhaave, Herman

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

2.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

3.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

4.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

5.

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)

6.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

7.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

8.

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)

9.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

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

11.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

12.

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

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

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

Clarence Darrow

15.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

19.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

23.

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

Merzel, David

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Wilder, Billy

26.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

29.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

35.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

36.

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

Tomlin, Lily

37.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

38.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

39.

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

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

42.

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

Berenson, Bernard

43.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

47.

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

Rosten, Leo

48.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

49.

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