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 truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

8.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

9.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

10.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

12.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Mark Twain

15.

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

Herbert, Frank

16.

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.

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

19.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

20.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

21.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

22.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

27.

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

28.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

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

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

32.

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

Diderot, Denis

33.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

39.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

40.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

41.

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

Bible

42.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

43.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

44.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

45.

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.

46.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

47.

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

Scott Westerfeld

48.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

49.

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