Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Brandes, George

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

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

3.

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

4.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

6.

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

Baldwin, James

7.

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

Blake, William

8.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

9.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

11.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

19.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

West, Jessamyn

21.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

22.

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

Clarence Darrow

23.

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

24.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

28.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

29.

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

30.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Farnham, Eliza

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

34.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

35.

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

36.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

37.

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

Adler, Alfred

38.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

39.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

40.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Bach, Richard

42.

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

Mark Twain

43.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Merzel, David

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

49.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

50.

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

Lewis, C. S.