Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Seabury, David

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Whately, Richard

10.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

11.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

12.

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

13.

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

Rosten, Leo

14.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

15.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

18.

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

Mann, Horace

19.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

20.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

21.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

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

Merzel, David

24.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

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

Kahlil Gibran

27.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

28.

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

Lee, Bruce

29.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

30.

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.

31.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

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

Sontag, Susan

41.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

45.

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

46.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.