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.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

4.

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

West, Jessamyn

5.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

8.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

10.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

11.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

13.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

14.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

15.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

16.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

17.

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

Malcolm X

18.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

19.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

20.

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

Edith Sitwell

21.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

24.

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

Clarence Darrow

25.

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

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Kersha, Al

30.

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

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Tomlin, Lily

35.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

36.

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.

37.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

42.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

43.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

46.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

48.

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

Herbert, Frank

49.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

50.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell