Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

2.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

3.

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

4.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

5.

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

Dickinson, Emily

6.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

7.

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

8.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

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

Berenson, Bernard

10.

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.

11.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

12.

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

Hare, J. C.

13.

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

Darrow, Clarence

14.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

15.

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

Whately, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

19.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

20.

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

Richards, R. Scott

21.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

23.

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

Brandes, George

24.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

25.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

26.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Adler, Alfred

28.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

29.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

30.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

31.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

38.

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

Tomlin, Lily

39.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

43.

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

44.

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

Seabury, David

45.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

47.

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.