Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

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.

5.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

6.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

Herbert, Frank

12.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

14.

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

Darrow, Clarence

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

21.

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.

22.

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

Lee, Bruce

23.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

26.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

27.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

28.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

29.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

30.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

31.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

32.

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

33.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

35.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

39.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

40.

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

Bach, Richard

41.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

43.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

44.

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

Mann, Horace

45.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

46.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.