Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

2.

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

Galileo Galilei

3.

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

Scott Westerfeld

4.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

7.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

8.

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.

9.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Herbert, Frank

13.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

14.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

Sontag, Susan

19.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

20.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

23.

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

24.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

West, Jessamyn

28.

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

29.

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

30.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

31.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

34.

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

Scott Westerfeld

35.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

36.

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

37.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

38.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

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.