Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Mark Twain

3.

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

Berenson, Bernard

4.

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

5.

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

Lewis, C. S.

6.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

7.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

8.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

11.

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

Herbert, Frank

12.

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

Kersha, Al

13.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

15.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

16.

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

Carrel, Alexis

17.

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

18.

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

Tom Bissell

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Russell, Utterly

23.

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

Herbert Agar

24.

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

Dickens, Charles

25.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

27.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

28.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

32.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Cronkite, Walter

34.

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

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Merzel, David

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

40.

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

Barnes, Leonard

41.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

42.

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

Sontag, Susan

43.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

44.

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

Howard, Vernon

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

Emre, Yumus

48.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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