Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hamilton, Sir William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

2.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

3.

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

Low, Albert

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 truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Merzel, David

7.

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.

8.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

9.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

10.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

11.

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

Tom Bissell

12.

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

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

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

Pindar

15.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

16.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

18.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

19.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

20.

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

21.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

23.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

24.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

25.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

26.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

27.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

30.

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

31.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

33.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

36.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

40.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

41.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

42.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

43.

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

Fuller, Max

44.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

45.

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

46.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb