Motivational Quotes

Truth

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

2.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

3.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

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

5.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

6.

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

Dickens, Charles

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

9.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

10.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

11.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

12.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

16.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

17.

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

Mark Twain

18.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

19.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

20.

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

21.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

22.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

23.

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

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

26.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

27.

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

28.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

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

30.

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

Tom Bissell

31.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

32.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

33.

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.

34.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

35.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

36.

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

Lewis, C. S.

37.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

38.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

43.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

44.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

45.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

46.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

Augustine, St.

48.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

49.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb