Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

2.

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

3.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

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

Darrow, Clarence

5.

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

Merzel, David

6.

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

7.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

8.

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

Farnham, Eliza

9.

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

Rosten, Leo

10.

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

11.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

12.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

13.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

14.

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

Richards, R. Scott

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

18.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

19.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

20.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

23.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

24.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

28.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

29.

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

Emre, Yumus

30.

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

31.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

32.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

34.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

35.

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

Diderot, Denis

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

38.

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

Barnes, Leonard

39.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

40.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

43.

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

Berenson, Bernard

44.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

45.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

46.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.