Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

4.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

5.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

6.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

7.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

8.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

9.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

10.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

11.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

12.

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

Richards, R. Scott

13.

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

West, Jessamyn

14.

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

Confucius

15.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

16.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

18.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Brandes, George

22.

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

Dickens, Charles

23.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Berenson, Bernard

26.

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

27.

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

Pascal, Blaise

28.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

29.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

33.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

34.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

35.

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

Blake, William

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.

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

Aristotle

38.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

39.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

40.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

41.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

Scott Westerfeld

43.

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

Whately, Richard

44.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

45.

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

46.

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

Penn, William

47.

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

Diderot, Denis

48.

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

Blake, William

49.

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

50.

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