Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Tomlin, Lily

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

5.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

6.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

8.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

9.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

10.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

12.

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

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

15.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

16.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

17.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

18.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Seabury, David

22.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

23.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

28.

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

Dickens, Charles

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

32.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

33.

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

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

Merzel, David

35.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

36.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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.

38.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

39.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

45.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

47.

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

Kersha, Al

48.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

49.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

50.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord