Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Low, Albert

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Mann, Horace

7.

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

8.

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

Norris, Frank

9.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

12.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

13.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

14.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

16.

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

Tom Bissell

17.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

19.

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

Emre, Yumus

20.

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

Russell, Utterly

21.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

24.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

25.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

26.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

27.

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

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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.

30.

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

Mamet, David

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

33.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

34.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

35.

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

36.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

37.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

38.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

39.

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

44.

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

Renard, Jules

45.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

46.

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

47.

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

Gide, Andre

48.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

49.

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

50.

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