Motivational Quotes

Truth

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hare, J. C.

2.

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

West, Jessamyn

3.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

4.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

6.

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

Renard, Jules

7.

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

8.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

10.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

12.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

13.

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

Norris, Frank

14.

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

Emre, Yumus

15.

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

16.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

17.

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

18.

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

Rostand, Jean

19.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

20.

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

21.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

26.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

27.

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

Strachey, Lionel

28.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

29.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

36.

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

37.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

38.

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

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

41.

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.

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.