Motivational Quotes

Truth

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

2.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

3.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

5.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

6.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

7.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

8.

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

Hare, J. C.

9.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Truman, Harry S

11.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

12.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

13.

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

Wilder, Billy

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

16.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

20.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

22.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

23.

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

Berlin, Irving

24.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

25.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

26.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

27.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

28.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

Emre, Yumus

30.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

33.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

34.

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

Walters, Hellmut

35.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

36.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

39.

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

Sontag, Susan

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

46.

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

47.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

50.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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