Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

2.

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

Low, Albert

3.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

4.

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

Mamet, David

5.

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

Darrow, Clarence

6.

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

Scott Westerfeld

7.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

8.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

11.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

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

13.

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

Rosten, Leo

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

17.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

18.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

19.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

20.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

21.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

22.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

23.

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.

24.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

29.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

30.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

32.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

33.

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.

34.

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

Merzel, David

35.

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

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

38.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

39.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

40.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

41.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

42.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

44.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

45.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

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.

47.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

48.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

49.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

50.

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

Butler, Samuel

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