Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

3.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

4.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

8.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

10.

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

Whately, Richard

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

13.

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

Valery, Paul

14.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

23.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

24.

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

25.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

Rosten, Leo

27.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

28.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

29.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

30.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Low, Albert

34.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

35.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

36.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

38.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

39.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

40.

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

Darrow, Clarence

41.

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

42.

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

Emre, Yumus

43.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

44.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

45.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

46.

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

Scott Westerfeld

47.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

49.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

50.

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