Top 100 Quotes About Truth
#1. We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
Bertrand Russell
#2. Truth can't be found in the stars; let the story speak for itself.
L.M. Fields
#3. Love is free, but priceless.
Wisdom is precious, but costless.
Faith is gentle, but fearless.
Joy is scarce, but limitless.
Truth is simple, but matchless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. It's one thing to know a truth in your head but another to understand it in your heart.
Carrie Ryan
#5. Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.
Kenny Smith
#6. In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi
Patrick Rothfuss
#7. You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
Mary Leakey
#8. You tell them the truth," Ash said, startling me. I wasn't expecting him to answer. "From the beginning. Either they accept it, or they don't, but you can't hide who you are, especially from your family. Best to get it over with - we can deal with whatever happens after." His
Julie Kagawa
#9. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
Daphne Du Maurier
#10. Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
Stephen King
#11. Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#13. Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
Rick Pitino
#14. If you start telling the truth it will sound leftist to people on the right, rightist to people on the left, and insane to the insane.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#15. For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
Lysander Spooner
#16. I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#18. There is no such thing as a fixed and reliable truth (except for the statement that this is so, presumably
Peter Barry
#19. I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.
Romany Malco
#20. If truth doesn't exist, then it would be true that truth doesn't exist, and once again we arrive at truth. There is no alternative; truth must exist.
Nabeel Qureshi
#21. Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth.
Anurag Bhatt
#22. I did my best to pretend it wasn't so ... I didn't have time to be ill.
Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors.
Alice Hoffman
#23. The maesters may believe what they wish. Ask a woods witch if you would know the truth. The grey death sleeps, only to wake again. The child is not clean!
George R R Martin
#24. Truth is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
Jack Vance
#25. We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.
Laurence Sterne
#27. For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.
Clement Of Alexandria
#28. You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.
Zoe Marriott
#30. A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino
#31. The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.
Seanan McGuire
#32. If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it.
Jack Canfield
#33. Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.
Michael Keaton
#34. Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?
Jorge Amado
#36. Those are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language.
Sonja Livingston
#37. People are users. It's a universal truth. Use them, or they'll use you.
Victoria Schwab
#38. Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.
Eusebius
#39. A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
Joseph Conrad
#40. Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
Veronica Roth
#41. The only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That's the new authenticity.
Nathan Hill
#42. The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. So it should make sense that by taking on more than you can handle, you accomplish more than you ever dreamed you could. And so it is.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#45. Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Franz Marc
#46. The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
Ida Tarbell
#47. In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end.
Marcel Proust
#48. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley
#49. [Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science - where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.
Andrew Dickson White
#50. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#51. First I anger Edmure, and now Robb, but all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?
George R R Martin
#52. What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?
Janny Wurts
#53. Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.
Bryan Stevenson
#54. But in simplicity lies truth. In simplicity lies power.
Kamal Ravikant
#57. It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Lemony Snicket
#59. Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.
Ravi Zacharias
#62. The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.
Henry A. Wallace
#63. The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
Hugh Shelton
#65. A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
Maria Montessori
#66. The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#68. Those who only says what is the truth, they're not worth listening to.
Jonas Jonasson
#69. I'd had my suspicions, but they couldn't have prepared me for the truth.
Amanda Sun
#70. A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
#71. Truth.
In a court of law it is little more than an interpretive tool, in reality, there are no absolutes in life, and any truth will change over time, at the end of the day, if it hurts its bad if it doesn't hurt its good, and truth sort of lurks in between those two extremes.
Steve Merrick
#72. Who never found what good from science grew,
Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
Charles Sprague Sargent
#73. One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. He said the truth is like that water: it doesn't matter how hard you try to bury it; it'll always find some way back to the surface. It's resilient.
K.A. Tucker
#75. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
C. G. Jung
#76. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis
#77. If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.
Jeremy Clarkson
#78. Truth is the heart of the song, Rat. If you cannot hear truth, you cannot hear anything.
Anthony Ryan
#79. I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.
Gwen Ifill
#81. I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#82. Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.
Criss Jami
#83. Suffering is universal, and yet nobody teaches us how to cope with this truth of life.
Lisa Danylchuk
#85. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.
Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
#86. Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#87. The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a fantasy figure for the purpose of persuading gullible Gentiles to accept the revolutionary ideas that would be their undoing.
Christine M. Johns
#88. Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness.
Jerry L. Ainsworth
#89. I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
Ashwin Sanghi
#90. The Truth part of the SET system is the most important and the most difficult for the borderline to accept since so much of his world excludes or rejects realistic consequences.
Jerold J. Kreisman
#92. Hardly anybody tells the truth these days. For the truth I have to go to Washington DC, and whatever a politician says, interpolate the opposite.
Jarod Kintz
#93. Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.
Rebecca Mead
#94. Wait... Wait... wait... you don't know the whole truth you just know a piece of the truth.
Deyth Banger
#95. Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston S. Churchill
#96. Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.
Owen Sheers
#97. The simple truth hit Shiva: if the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybody's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties. Lord Ram was a genius!
Amish Tripathi
#98. Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape
Ellen Hopkins
#99. But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
George W. Bush
#100. To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.
Piero Ferrucci
