Awesome Quotes and Sayings About The Truth
Quotations & Citations:
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
~Mark Twain
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
~Stopford Brooke
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~Mark Twain
There is no truth. There is only perception.
~Gustave Flaubert
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
~Mark Twain
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.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
When one has one’s hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
~French Proverb
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
~Gloria Steinem
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.
~Simone de Beauvoir
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.
~Mahatma Gandhi
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
~Aldous Huxley
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
~Denis Diderot
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
~Oscar Wilde
Truth is a great flirt.
~Franz Liszt
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
~Winston S. Churchill
For men in earnest have no time to waste
In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.~James Russell Lowell
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~Oscar Wilde
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
~Alphonse de Lamartine
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell
Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other forces.
~Leslie Woolf Hedley
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Seek truth and you will find a path.
~Frank Slaughter
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
~Mark Twain
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
~William Faulkner
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~Leo Tolstoy
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
~Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
~Dōgen Zenji
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
~Flannery O’Connor
Truth breeds hatred.
~Bias of Priene
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
~Pablo Picasso
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
~Oscar Wilde
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
~Jim Morrison
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
~Charles Caleb Colton
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.
~Shoseki
There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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 that do.
~William Blake
There are no facts, only interpretations.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
~Werner Heisenberg
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
~Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
~Rebecca West
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
~François de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
~William James
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~Virginia Woolf
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
~Thomas Jefferson
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~Ernest Hemingway
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~Aldous Huxley
The only truth is music.
~Jack Kerouac
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
~Nadine Gordimer
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
~David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
~George Washington
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~Kahlil Gibran
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
~Malcolm X
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