Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

2.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

3.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

4.

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

Darrow, Clarence

5.

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

6.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

7.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

8.

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

9.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

10.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

12.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

15.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

16.

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

17.

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

Walters, Hellmut

18.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Lee, Bruce

21.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

22.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

23.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

Bible

28.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

29.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

30.

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

Adler, Alfred

31.

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

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

34.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

36.

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

Herbert, Frank

37.

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

38.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

39.

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

40.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Tell the truth and then run.