Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

2.

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

Tomlin, Lily

3.

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

4.

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

Valery, Paul

5.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

6.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

9.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

10.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

11.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

15.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

16.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

17.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

18.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

19.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Brandes, George

22.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

23.

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

Herbert, Frank

24.

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

Kersha, Al

25.

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

Kahlil Gibran

26.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

28.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

31.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

33.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

34.

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

35.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

37.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

38.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

40.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

41.

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

42.

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

43.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

45.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

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

Hare, J. C.

47.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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

50.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily