Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

2.

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

3.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

4.

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.

5.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

6.

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

7.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Pancoast, Mal

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

Pindar

15.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

16.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

20.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

23.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

24.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

25.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

26.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Herbert Agar

28.

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

Barnes, Leonard

29.

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

Rosten, Leo

30.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

34.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

35.

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

Lewis, C. S.

36.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Brandes, George

38.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Davies, Robertson

42.

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

43.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

45.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

46.

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

Lee, Bruce

47.

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

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

50.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar