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.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

4.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

5.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

6.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

8.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

Brandes, George

10.

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

Herbert Agar

11.

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

Herbert, Frank

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

15.

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

Tomlin, Lily

16.

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.

17.

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

Rosten, Leo

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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.

20.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

21.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

22.

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

Tom Bissell

23.

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.

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

27.

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

28.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Valery, Paul

30.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

31.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

32.

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

Mark Twain

33.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

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.

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

Merzel, David

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

44.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

45.

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

46.

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

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