Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Low, Albert

2.

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

3.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

4.

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

Lee, Bruce

5.

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.

6.

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

Seabury, David

7.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

8.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

9.

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

Valery, Paul

10.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

11.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

13.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

14.

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.

15.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

16.

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

17.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

21.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

22.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

25.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

26.

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

27.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

29.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

30.

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

Bach, Richard

31.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

32.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

33.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

34.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

35.

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

36.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

37.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

39.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.