Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

2.

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

Diderot, Denis

3.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

4.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

5.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

6.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

8.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

9.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Penn, William

12.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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

16.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

19.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

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

21.

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

Hare, J. C.

22.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

24.

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

Mamet, David

25.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

26.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

28.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

Kahlil Gibran

34.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

35.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Clarence Darrow

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

39.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

43.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

44.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

45.

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

Camus, Albert

46.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

47.

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

48.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

49.

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

50.

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

Mark Twain