Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Low, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

3.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

4.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

5.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

9.

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

10.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

13.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

14.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

15.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

18.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

19.

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

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

Sontag, Susan

21.

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.

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.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Bible

29.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

30.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

31.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

33.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

34.

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

Mann, Horace

35.

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

36.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

37.

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

Norris, Frank

38.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

39.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

43.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

47.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

48.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

50.

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