Motivational Quotes

Truth

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Berlin, Irving

2.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

3.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

4.

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

5.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

6.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

7.

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

Kersha, Al

8.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

9.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

10.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

11.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

12.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

13.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

15.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

17.

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

Richards, R. Scott

18.

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

19.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Sontag, Susan

22.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

25.

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

Valery, Paul

26.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

27.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Walters, Hellmut

30.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

31.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

33.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

34.

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

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

38.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.