Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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

Low, Albert

13.

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

Whately, Richard

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

16.

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

Kahlil Gibran

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

22.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

23.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

24.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

25.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

26.

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

Valery, Paul

27.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

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

33.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

34.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

38.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

39.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

40.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

41.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

45.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

46.

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

47.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

48.

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

49.

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

Norris, Frank

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.