Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Truth

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Carrel, Alexis

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

13.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

15.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

16.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

17.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

18.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Low, Albert

22.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

23.

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

Sontag, Susan

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

27.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

28.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

29.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

30.

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

Richards, R. Scott

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

33.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

34.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

37.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

39.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

40.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

41.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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