Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

2.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

3.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

4.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

5.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

6.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

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

Mamet, David

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

13.

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

Diderot, Denis

14.

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

15.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

17.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

18.

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

19.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

20.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

23.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

24.

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

Clarence Darrow

25.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Lewis, C. S.

27.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

28.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

29.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

30.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

31.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Low, Albert

35.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

36.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

37.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

38.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

43.

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

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Malcolm X

48.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

49.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard