Motivational Quotes

Truth

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

2.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

3.

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

4.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

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.

6.

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

Epictetus

7.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

8.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

9.

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

10.

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

Kersha, Al

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

16.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

17.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

18.

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

19.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Strachey, Lionel

22.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Fuller, Max

24.

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

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

Sontag, Susan

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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

Dickens, Charles

30.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

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

33.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

34.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

35.

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

36.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

37.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

38.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

41.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

42.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

43.

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

44.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

45.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

46.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.