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.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

5.

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

Augustine, St.

6.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

7.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

8.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

9.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

10.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

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

Bible

12.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

14.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

17.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

20.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

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

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

28.

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

Tomlin, Lily

29.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

30.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

31.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

32.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

33.

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

34.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

35.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

36.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Malcolm X

39.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

40.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.