Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Penn, William

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

5.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

7.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

11.

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

Seabury, David

12.

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

Carrel, Alexis

13.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Malcolm X

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

20.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

21.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

22.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Mamet, David

27.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

28.

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

West, Jessamyn

29.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

30.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

31.

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

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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.

34.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

36.

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

37.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

39.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

40.

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

41.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

42.

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

Diderot, Denis

43.

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

Rosten, Leo

44.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

45.

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.

46.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

47.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

48.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.