Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

4.

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.

5.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

6.

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

Seabury, David

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

9.

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

Russell, Utterly

10.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

15.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

16.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

17.

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

Mann, Horace

18.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Adler, Alfred

20.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

21.

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

Rostand, Jean

22.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

23.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

26.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

27.

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

Penn, William

28.

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

Berlin, Irving

29.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

30.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Sontag, Susan

33.

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

Wilder, Billy

34.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

35.

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

36.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

37.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

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

41.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

42.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

43.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

44.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

45.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

46.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

49.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.