Motivational Quotes

Truth

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

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)

5.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

6.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

8.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

9.

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

Malcolm X

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

15.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

16.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

17.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

22.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

25.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

26.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

28.

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

Herbert, Frank

29.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

31.

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

32.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

33.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

34.

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

35.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

36.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

37.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

38.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

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

Darrow, Clarence

42.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

43.

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

44.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

45.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

46.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.