Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

4.

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

Valery, Paul

5.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

6.

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

7.

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

Aristotle

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

10.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

15.

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

16.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

17.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

20.

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

Rosten, Leo

21.

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

Bible

22.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

30.

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

Hesse, Hermann

31.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

33.

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

Norris, Frank

34.

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

Whately, Richard

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

38.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

Clarence Darrow

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

46.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

It is the truth that irritates a person.