Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

2.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

3.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

6.

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

Diderot, Denis

7.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

8.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

9.

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

10.

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)

11.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

16.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

17.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

18.

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

Strachey, Lionel

19.

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.

20.

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

Herbert, Frank

21.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Merzel, David

25.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

28.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

29.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

30.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

32.

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

33.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

34.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

35.

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

Adler, Alfred

36.

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

37.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

38.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

39.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

40.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

41.

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.