Welcome to our collection of Truth Quotes! Truth is a fundamental concept that has intrigued and inspired humanity for centuries. It serves as a guiding principle in our quest for knowledge, understanding, and authenticity. From philosophers and thinkers to poets and leaders, individuals from all walks of life have shared their thoughts and insights on the nature of truth. In this compilation, you will find a diverse range of quotes that delve into the profound and thought-provoking aspects of truth. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply a deeper understanding of this complex concept, these truth quotes offer wisdom and perspective. So, feel free to explore and use these quotes as you see fit – copy them, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share their wisdom with others.
Now, without further ado, let’s delve into the world of truth through the words of some of the most influential minds in history.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. Dorothy L. Sayers
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. Ismail Haniyeh
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Elvis Presley
There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. Mary Astell
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Maya Angelou
Truth exists; only lies are invented. Georges Braque
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus
Truth disappears with the telling of it. Lawrence Durrell
My longing for truth was a single prayer. Edith Stein
Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Anais Nin
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman
Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. Swami Vivekananda
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Unknown
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. Aesop
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. John Calvin
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. H. L. Mencken
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. David Icke
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. James A. Garfield
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. Herodotus
Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth. Justin Timberlake
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Hosea Ballou
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Jean Rostand
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake
The first reaction to truth is hatred. Tertullian
The intuition of free will gives us the truth. Corliss Lamont
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. Henry Rollins
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Bob Dylan
Sincerity is moral truth. George Henry Lewes
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Edgar Allan Poe
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Andy Rooney
The universe is transformation: life is opinion. Marcus Aurelius
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy
If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. Thomas Huxley
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. George Lucas
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann
All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw
Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Robert H. Schuller
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. Emile Zola
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it. Whitney Houston
The words of truth are always paradoxical. Lao Tzu
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens
The object of the superior man is truth. Confucius
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth. Shel Silverstein
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Andre Maurois
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. Coco Chanel
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus Christ
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it. Douglas Adams
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. Mark Twain
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson
No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. Patrick Henry
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William Cullen Bryant
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. Steven Biko
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. Horace Mann
Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. Frank A. Clark