Top 55 Truth Untruth Quotes
#1. Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
Gautama Buddha
#2. 'Twould be easy to say 'tis a gift, but 'twould also be an untruth. Beauty and compliments are always to be found in the truth, when not maliciously brought to light.
Sam Knight
#3. A myth ... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Christopher Vogler
#5. Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.
D.H. Lawrence
#8. One or many believers don't determine the truth or untruth.
Frank Sonnenberg
#9. There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
Abelardo Morell
#10. A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude
Thornton Wilder
#12. A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. To generate untruth, you have to do a lot of things. For truth, there is nothing to do - anyway it is there.
Sadghuru
#14. Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth ... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
Plato
#15. And that's why I've chosen to write these pages as I've written them. For only by stepping into the middle zone, the polychrome edge between truth and untruth, is it tolerable to be here and writing this at all.
Donna Tartt
#16. If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.
Adrian Rogers
#17. Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
George Orwell
#18. Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?
Colleen Chen
#19. With the truth on your side, you are powerful even if you are all alone; with the untruth on your side, you are weak even if you are backed by billions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House.
Jim Butcher
#21. My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.
Vincent Van Gogh
#22. I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.
Sorin Cerin
#24. The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
George Orwell
#25. A half-truth masquerading as a whole truth becomes a complete untruth
J.I. Packer
#26. Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.
Lysa TerKeurst
#28. God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
Gautama Buddha
#30. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us - or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
Swami Vivekananda
#34. People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior.
Molly Friedenfeld
#35. There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#36. Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
Albert Schweitzer
#37. The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#38. At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#39. Is that true?
There is truth in it.
And lies as well?
There is an untruth, and an exaggeration.
George R R Martin
#40. The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike
#42. Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.
William Barrett
#44. People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.
Salman Rushdie
#45. Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
Albert Camus
#46. Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
Ira Levin
#50. True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
Thomas Hobbes
#51. We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.
Tulsi
#52. The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
Sorin Cerin
#53. The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
Pope Benedict XVI
#54. The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
