Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

2.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

3.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

4.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

5.

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

Joubert, Joseph

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

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

8.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

9.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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.

13.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

17.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

19.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Barnes, Leonard

22.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

23.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

24.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

25.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

31.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

33.

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

34.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

35.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

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

37.

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

Penn, William

38.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

39.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

43.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.