Motivational Quotes

Truth

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

3.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

4.

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

5.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

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

7.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

8.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

9.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

10.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

11.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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)

19.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

20.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

21.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

22.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Truman, Harry S

24.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

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

26.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

27.

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

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

30.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

31.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

32.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

35.

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

Scott Westerfeld

36.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

37.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

38.

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

Lewis, C. S.

39.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

40.

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

Augustine, St.

41.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

42.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

43.

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

Emre, Yumus

44.

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

Darrow, Clarence

45.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

46.

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