Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

3.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

4.

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

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

7.

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.

8.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

9.

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

10.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

12.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

13.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

14.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

15.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

16.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

19.

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

Galileo Galilei

20.

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

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

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

23.

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

Sontag, Susan

24.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

25.

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.

26.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

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

Darrow, Clarence

28.

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

Augustine, St.

29.

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)

30.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

34.

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

Herbert Agar

35.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

Gide, Andre

38.

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

Mamet, David

39.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

42.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

43.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

44.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

45.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

46.

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

Camus, Albert

47.

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

48.

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

Aristotle

49.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

50.

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