Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Seabury, David

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

4.

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

Russell, Utterly

5.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

6.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

7.

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

Mark Twain

8.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

10.

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

Emre, Yumus

11.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Malcolm X

13.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

14.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

15.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

17.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

19.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

21.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

Truman, Harry S

28.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

29.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

30.

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

31.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

32.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

33.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

34.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

40.

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

41.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

42.

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.

43.

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

Scott Westerfeld

44.

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

45.

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

Penn, William

46.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

47.

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

48.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

49.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

50.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace