Motivational Quotes

Truth

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Renard, Jules

2.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

3.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

4.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

5.

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.

6.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

7.

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

8.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

10.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Walters, Hellmut

15.

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

16.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

17.

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

18.

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

Low, Albert

19.

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

Barnes, Leonard

20.

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

Farnham, Eliza

21.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

25.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

26.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Seabury, David

29.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

31.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

32.

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

Carrel, Alexis

33.

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

34.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

35.

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

Edith Sitwell

36.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Penn, William

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

40.

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

Truman, Harry S

41.

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

42.

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

Kersha, Al

43.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

44.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

45.

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