Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Seabury, David

2.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

3.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

4.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

5.

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.

6.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

7.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

8.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

9.

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

10.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

13.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

16.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

19.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

20.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

22.

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

23.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

24.

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

25.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

28.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

29.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

33.

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

Norris, Frank

34.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

35.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

36.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

37.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

38.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

39.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

40.

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)

41.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

43.

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

Valery, Paul

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin