Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

2.

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

Blake, William

3.

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

4.

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

Zola, Emile

5.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

8.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

9.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

West, Jessamyn

13.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

14.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

15.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

18.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

21.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

22.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

23.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

24.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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.

28.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

29.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

30.

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

31.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

32.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Penn, William

34.

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

35.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

38.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

39.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Bible

43.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

44.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

45.

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

46.

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

Carrel, Alexis

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

49.

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

50.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus