Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

2.

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

Darrow, Clarence

3.

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

Kahlil Gibran

4.

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

5.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

6.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

9.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

16.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

17.

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

Clarence Darrow

18.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

19.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

20.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

21.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

22.

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

Davies, Robertson

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

27.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

28.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

32.

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

Seabury, David

33.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

34.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

36.

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

37.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

38.

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

39.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

40.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

41.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Darrow, Clarence

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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

46.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

47.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

48.

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

49.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

50.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace