Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

3.

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

Bible

4.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

5.

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

Voltaire

6.

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

Valery, Paul

7.

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

8.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

13.

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

14.

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

Russell, Utterly

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

20.

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

Emre, Yumus

21.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

Low, Albert

24.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

25.

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

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

28.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

31.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

32.

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

33.

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

Strachey, Lionel

34.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

35.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

36.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

43.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

47.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.