Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

3.

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

Lee, Bruce

4.

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

5.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

6.

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

Joubert, Joseph

7.

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

Aristotle

8.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

12.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

16.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

17.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

18.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

19.

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

20.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

21.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

22.

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)

23.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

24.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

26.

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

Clarence Darrow

27.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

29.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

30.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

31.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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.

33.

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

Tomlin, Lily

34.

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

Mann, Horace

35.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

36.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

37.

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

Davies, Robertson

38.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

39.

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

41.

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.

42.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

43.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

44.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

45.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

46.

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

47.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

48.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

49.

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

50.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard