Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

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

Davies, Robertson

3.

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

4.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

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

6.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

7.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

8.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

9.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

12.

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

13.

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

Barnes, Leonard

14.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

16.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

17.

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.

18.

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

Herbert, Frank

19.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

20.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

28.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

29.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

30.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

35.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

36.

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

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

39.

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

40.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

42.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

43.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

44.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

45.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

46.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

47.

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

Berlin, Irving

48.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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