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.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

2.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

3.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

5.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

6.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

7.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

8.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

12.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

13.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

14.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

16.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Herbert Agar

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

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

Strachey, Lionel

20.

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

21.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

22.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Darrow, Clarence

24.

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

25.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

26.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

27.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

31.

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

Cronkite, Walter

32.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mamet, David

36.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

37.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

41.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

42.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Pascal, Blaise

45.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

47.

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

Kersha, Al

48.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

49.

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