Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

2.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

3.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

4.

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

5.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

6.

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

Diderot, Denis

7.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

8.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

9.

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

10.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Brandes, George

13.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

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

Kahlil Gibran

17.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

18.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

19.

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.

20.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

35.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

36.

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

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

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.

39.

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

Seabury, David

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Darrow, Clarence

43.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

44.

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

Tomlin, Lily

45.

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

46.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

47.

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

Einstein, Albert