Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

3.

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

4.

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

Emre, Yumus

5.

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.

6.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

7.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

8.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

9.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

10.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

11.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

12.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

13.

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

14.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

15.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

19.

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

Davies, Robertson

20.

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

Berlin, Irving

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

24.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

29.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

36.

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

37.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

39.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

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

41.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

42.

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

Lee, Bruce

43.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

44.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

45.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

46.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

47.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

48.

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

49.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S