415 Revealing Quotes About The Truth You Don't Want To Miss

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Reading some quotes about the truth can provide a reality check.

We all know we should tell the truth all the time.

However, sometimes we just need a little reminder.

This list of quotes will provide just that.

Right, let’s jump in and take a look at this list of quotes about the truth.

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Quotes About The Truth

We learned about honesty and integrity that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama

What matters is to see the fact as it is now, without any distortion. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Any truth, I maintain, is my own property.
Seneca

Intuition comes from a place inside you that connects to a truth that is totally accessible. I’ve heard people say that intuition is God’s voice inside of you, or that it’s the voice of an angel whispering in your ear. Laya Saul

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. Jordan Peterson

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just got to find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire. Friedrich Nietzsche

A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being. Osho

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. Plato

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older. Michel de Montaigne

If you’re seeking the truth than what you don’t know is more important than you know. Jordan Peterson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those with a reputation for telling harsh truths will be completely ignored in an age of comfort and complacency. They will be aggressively sought after in times of danger and uncertainty. The Stoic Emperor

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. Charles Dickens

Jesus, provides powerful instruction and revelation about the living Easter experience happening day by day in the lives of every seeker of truth. Joel S. Goldsmith

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. Osho

The third time you say a thing, it sounds like a lie. Harrison Ford

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one. Albert Einstein

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.
Swami Vivekananda

You live in error and strive towards the truth and it’s in that striving that the truth is most accurately embodied. Jordan Peterson

If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Truth is singular. Its ‘versions’ are mistruths. David Mitchell

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. John Locke

Truth demands vulnerability. The Stoic Emperor

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. Catherine of Siena

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Chuchill

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others. Mencius

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoevsky

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time your buttons get pushed is like a big mirror showing you your own face. Pema Chödrön

Truth is a pathless land. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. Charles Dickens

Because sometimes truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Jonathan Nolan

We lie because we are scared. Once we accept complete responsibility for our lives, we become free and tell the truth. Maxime Lagacé

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero

That which is true must be infinite and eternal. Swami Vivekananda

Miracles bear witness to truth. They are convincing because they arise from conviction. Without conviction they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive; or rather, the uncreative use of mind.
Dr. Helen Schucman

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can’t lead to a good conclusion. Julian Assange

It is great fun if you have rejected totally everything that man has said. Because then you stand alone; when you find out for yourself, it will be authentic, real, true, not dependent on any professor, any psychologist, any analyst. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yet, being loud doesn’t increase the value or validity of their opinion. In fact, often by the very nature of being the loudest, those opinions are typically the furthest from reality. Mark Homer

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness. Brené Brown

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. Joe Abercrombie

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. Bill Copeland

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself. Noam Chomsky

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. Susan Sontag

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard

Any teacher, any method, any system that says, ‘Do this and you will find truth’, is telling you a lie. Jiddu Krishnamurti

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it. Ursula K. Le Guin

To reach that end goal you and I must be willing to be straightforward with one another. We must be willing and prepared to stare at ourselves in the mirror and speak the truth. Mark Devro

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. René Descartes

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies. Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.
Osho

Don’t follow anybody, don’t worship persons, including myself; that is sentimental, romantic, it has nothing to do with the search for truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely dead end. Billy Graham

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. Thomas Hardy

Truth cannot make a person unkind, or too self-assured; the manifestations of truth telling are humility and simplicity. Leo Tolstoy

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O’Connor

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant. Miyamoto Musashi

They say that in the end truth will triumph, but it’s a lie. Anton Chekhov

Nothing hurts like the truth. If we are forbidden to offend, we are commanded to lie. Most truths will be offensive to someone. Polite lies can do as much damage as malicious ones. The Stoic Emperor

Your are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important. Ajahn Chah

You need to believe in a few lies to be happy. Thibaut

You ought to be preparing yourself… to hear truths which no inflexibility will be able to withstand. James Madison

Focus only on the top and you miss the journey. Focus only on the journey and you miss the top. Maxime Lagacé

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Andy Rooney

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. Thomas Sowell

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is reality and we have to be honest to discover it. Unknown

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett

Society knows no truths, thus, it has little alternative but to condition humans to seek its lies. Kapil Gupta

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. Mahatma Gandhi

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Standing courageously for an unpopular opinion isn’t easy, but the rewards of standing courageously for the truth will last forever. Rick Warren

The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves. Thibaut

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. Eckhart Tolle

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it. Thomas Aquinas

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? Jodi Picoult

We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. Seneca

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous. Mencius

People tend to whisper when they say the truth and raise their voice when they lie. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you’re not living your truth, you’re living a lie. Joseph Curiale

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. Michael Jackson

Plato is my friend Aristotle is my friend but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton

Telling a truth is not only a matter of character, but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias.
M. K. Soni

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chödrön

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. Stephanie Klein

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. Bell Hooks

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. R. Scott Richards

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. James E. Faust

Truth Quotes

It is the teacher’s job to tell us the cold, hard truth, because the world certainly will! Better to face our demons when we’re in school and able to work on self-improvement full-time. Tim Gun

A misconception remains a misconception even when it is shared by the majority of people. Leo Tolstoy

In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find.
Terry Pratchett

Despite what you might have been told, we’re not inherently selfish. The truth is, we’re inherently kind. David R. Hamilton PhD

Candor is appreciated and people say that is what they want. However, what they mean is tell me the truth, even if you have to make it up. Monica L. Wofford

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. Shoseki

Things happen for you, not to you. Truths are your saviors, not your enemies. Accept. Grow. Maxime Lagacé

Too many prefer gentle lies to hard truths. Shane Parrish

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. Benjamin E. Mays

Never ignore an important truth merely because of the amount of work it would take to accept it. James Clear

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe

If you would seek truth you must abandon those values that are based on sensation and gratification, on passion and ill will, possessiveness and greed. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. Buddha

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. Carl Sagan

There’s an old saying that if a lie is told often enough, it becomes the truth. Actually, it doesn’t. What happens is that people simply start believing that it’s true. Bailey Jackson

It is always tempting to embrace a lie that flatters us over a truth that would force us to change. The Stoic Emperor

If you’re scared, you’re on the shore. If you’re courageous, you’re in the river. Maxime Lagacé

To live a life of truth, even if it is for a single moment, is far more valuable than to live eternally in lies.
Osho

The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling. Robert M. Pirsig

You’ll never find truth on top of mountains. You’ll have a glimpse on the way up. Maxime Lagacé

I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. Friedrich Nietzsche

Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him. Pope John XXIII

Here is your truth. You have God within you. Live from that place and all will be well. Wayne Dyer

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings

I know that truth alone gives life, and nothing but going towards reality will make us strong, and none will reach truth until he is strong. Swami Vivekananda

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. George Orwell

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button. Brené Brown

Pretending to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. Richard Nixon

Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. Sir Winston Churchill

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. Miyamoto Musashi

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. Terry Pratchett

At a certain point, you can become so enchanted with the symbols that you entirely confuse them with the reality. The menu is not the meal. Alan Watts

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell

For truth to be heard, it must be spoken with kindness. Truth is kind only when it is spoken through your heart with sincerity. Leo Tolstoy

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source. Debbie Ford

Never ever apologize for speaking truth, you’ll only strengthen the wicked and discourage the brave. Carlos Del Valle

In deep insecurity is truth realised. Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. Mark Twain

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens

What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have. Oprah Winfrey

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it. Confucius

Dare to seek truth even through hell. Swami Vivekananda

Reality comes into being when there is complete liberation from all authority, from all compulsion and imitation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

The busy man has no time for truth. The wise man dedicates his life to it. Maxime Lagacé

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

All truth is precious, if not all divine, / And all dilates the pow’rs must needs refine. Cowper

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot

You can have ignorance or you can have self-knowledge. You can live deluded or you can live for truth. Maxime Lagacé

Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning.
Haruki Murakami

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. Robert Green Ingersoll

From Latin: ‘Inside man lives the truth.’ Saint Augustine

Only silence communicates the truth as it is. Osho

The only reason why I became successful was because I went towards the truth. As painful and as brutal as it is, it changed me. It allowed me, in my own right, to become the person who I am today. David Goggins

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. French Proverb

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. Robert Brault

Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth

The rise of socal media is proving problematic. Younger age groups of children and adults are now becoming heavily absorbed in it, unaware that social media presents rose-tinted versions of life as the truth, and it’s against this fiction that they’re comparing themselves. Thibaut

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up. George R.R. Martin

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

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. Goethe

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort. Fred Rogers

To find out truth you have to be completely free, to stand alone. And standing alone is to turn your back on society. Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are never definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong. Richard Feynman

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha

Too often people believe in something, not because they think it’s true, but merely because it is socially acceptable. Thibaut

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. James Baldwin

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies. Thomas Jefferson

The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie. Paulo Coelho

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen

Integrity and tribalism are often at odds with each other. You can either fulfill your loyalty to your party or you can stand by truth. The two are (mostly) mutually exclusive. If you want to side with truth then bear in mind that it comes with a cost. The Ancient Sage

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace

Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all-knowledge; truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating. Swami Vivekananda

Telling The Truth Quotes

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain

Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
Marcus Aurelius

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something to be realized. Osho

If you want to have a healthy mind, you must feed your mind with truth. You must feed your mind not with junk or poison but with truth. Rick Warren

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. Alice Cary

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re percent dead wood. Jordan Peterson

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. John Locke

Truth is simple. Very simple so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it. Osho

Befriend the truth and make it your ally in all things. The Stoic Emperor

You go to remote corners of the earth to find truth, but truth is just around the corner, here! Jiddu Krishnamurti

The truth is that success isn’t as hard or as scary as it might seem. Reaching your goals isn’t impossible. Alex Fitel

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. Travis Walton

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion. Søren Kierkegaard

Toward the end of his life Dr. King displayed increasing urgency as he spoke the truth about what he discerned and resisted those who sought to ghettoize his concern for social justice and peace. Marian Wright Edelman

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore

The truth is that happiness is so compelling, so attractive – so irresistible – that whether you realize it or not, everything you do is aimed at making yourself happy.
Marci Shimof

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. P.D. Ouspensky

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. Plato

A lie is like a snowball, it starts off small and then grows and grows until a point were it gets so big it falls apart and then the truth is discovered. Chris Hughes

Don’t follow anybody’s footprints. Truth cannot be borrowed, neither can the path that somebody else has trodden. Osho

The truth us what it is, not what should be. What should be is a dirty lie. Lenny Bruce

Meditation, truth, beauty, love. These are not just words. One has to find a way of living where they come into reality. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life goes on, and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth. Epictetus

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. Warren Wiersbe

As long as you’re willing to be disliked for telling it, the truth is actually pretty easy. Stefan Molyneux

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health off human society. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes two to speak truth–one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. Osho

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. J. Michael Straczynski

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

When you face a choice between being polite and being honest, err on the side of the truth. It’s better to be disliked but respected than to be liked but disrespected. In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere. Adam Grant

The truth is, those who consistently lack positive emotions in their lives more often than not tend to generate much of the world’s unkindness.
Michael J. Chase

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. Lindsay Wagner

The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know, it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge. Don Miguel Ruiz

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus

Truth is timeless. Truth does not differ for one age to another, from one people to another, from one geographical location to another… the great all-prevailing truth stands for time and eternity. Billy Graham

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

Seek truth and you will find a path. Frank Slaughter

Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. David Foster Wallace

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran

The most difficult battles that you will fight in your life is that between your mind who knows the truth and your heart that refuse to accept it. Paulo Coelho

A blossoming flower, contains far more power, than one can view, with the understanding, of our universal truths. David Shah, The Explorer

Telling the truth shows respect. Telling the truth is a sign you value time. Telling the truth shows you’re strong. Maxime Lagacé

Verily there is nothing so false, that a sparkle of truth is not in it. Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. Napoleon Bonaparte

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. Dorothy Allison

Just because you ignore reality doesn’t mean it will ignore you.
Shane Parrish

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. Michael Jackson

Simplicity is the hallmark of truth we should know better, but complexity continues to have a morbid attraction. Edsger Dijkstra

Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. Mark Twain

Don’t allow lies to rule your world. Do your best to see the truth and follow the truth by following your own heart. Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson

The very perception of seeing what is false is the truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton

The only thing we have in mind are illusions. The only thing life is, is truth. Maxime Lagacé

If you seek Truth, you will be alone forever. […] You will not have the conversations you long for. You will feel out of place in this world. You will stand as a red spot against a pale sky (And a beacon on the vast horizon). Kapil Gupta

Because it is easy we prefer what is known regardless of whether it is true. Shane Parrish

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. William Shakespeare

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling falsehood about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson

I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. Sojourner Truth

The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore

Step into your authentic truth, because your truth will light up the world. Gabby Bernstein

We go wrong when we don’t admit the unknowable complexity of reality, but we go dangerously wrong when we claim that one pale story—or an anthology of them—is truth. Dean Koontz

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams

For each truth, the contrary is also true! Herman Hesse

In general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth. Edgar Allan Poe

I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. Kahlil Gibran

It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it. Benjamin Franklin

Doing more in less time is a given for remote workers. People claim to be able to concentrate in an open office – if that was true, why does everyone have noise blocking headphones?! Sanya Weathers

The truth really is ‘the light of the world. Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It’s the healthiest way to be. Tiffany Haddish

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

There is one truth that must be sought after first before you can go further and that truth is that you must take charge of your own life for you cannot lead a life of truth if you let someone else take responsibility for your thoughts or actions. Byron Pulsifer

When in doubt tell the truth. Mark Twain

A man is beginning to learn the Truth about life when he is no longer surprised by anything. Kapil Gupta

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. W. Somerset Maugham

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Kahlil Gibran

As mothers, our job, … is to help our sons seek knowledge and truth, because these are the things that bring true satisfaction of the soul. Meg Meeker Md

All day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation. Simone de Beauvoir

The truth is, everyone puts trust in someone or something, whether they call it God, a Higher Power, the universe, a statue, a created being, an idol, Presence, or themselves as an evolving deity.
Robert Mitchell

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy

The mother of all Truths: There is nothing. Kapil Gupta

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil! William Shakespeare

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. Thomas Jefferson

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth has nothing whatsoever to do with belief. Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value. Friedrich Nietzsche

Living your truth will give you more than just happiness, it will give you meaning. Maxime Lagacé

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits. Michel de Montaigne

Listening to the truth is the beginning of a new journey. Osho

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Richard Feynman

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

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all. Muhammad Ali

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth. Billy Graham

They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. Mark Twain

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. Muhammad Ali

Truth only hurts if your entire life is built on lies. Carlos Del Valle

If you want the truth, take no one else’s word for it. Accept only science, reason, and direct experience. Start on solid ground. Mind each step.
Naval Ravikant

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. Wayne W. Dyer

More Quotes About The Truth

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C.S. Lewis

What you would seem to be, be really. Benjamin Franklin

You should not honor men more than truth.
Plato

Sometimes, when you don’t ask questions, it’s not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It’s because you’re afraid they’ll tell you the truth. Jodi Picoult

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ Khalil Gibran

The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle. Adrienne C. Moore

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. Liu Xiaobo

Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality. Osho

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always universal. Positive thinking can never fail; it is a proven truth. Bill Mcdowell, Positive Thinking: Think Positively

If I could persuade every single person in the world to accept all of my beliefs, it would not make those beliefs correct. Nor would it change what is actually true. David Bercot

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow and that is likely to hurt. Wei Wu Wei

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Mahatma Gandhi

My humor is always rooted in truth and full of wisdom – the kind that comes from living, watching, learning, and knowing. Steve Harvey

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla

Your mind talks illusions. Your heart whispers the truth. Maxime Lagacé

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. Ann Landers

Part The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside. Naval Ravikant

If a someone says, I have experienced truth, distrust them completely. Jiddu Krishnamurti

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. Malcolm X

Truth is the best disinfectant. Paulo Coelho

On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual. Haruki Murakami

Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. Swami Vivekananda

Because truth is unpopular does not mean that is should not be proclaimed. Billy Graham

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. Kurt Cobain

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. Albert Einstein

If the truth be told, small amounts of stress are actually helpful in our everyday life. Robert Gallagher

We all quote scriptures reflecting that God’s ways are not man’s ways, but because of sin we rebel against that truth. Stephen Shortridge

The truth is anyone can be the difference; all it takes is using whatever you have, to do whatever you can. Darius Graham

The alternative to practicing what Scripture calls speaking the truth in love is continuing to communicate a lie in fear. That’s no way to live. Beth Moore

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. Friedrich Nietzsche

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. George R.R. Martin

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. G.K. Chesterton

Truth is only painful if you’re in a state of delusion. Alexander J.A Cortes

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, but you will love me later because I told you the truth. Mary J. Blige

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anaïs Nin

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir

The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally it’s blown away and what’s below is revealed. Haruki Murakami

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. G.K. Chesterton

Don’t keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. Sengcan

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. C. S. Lewis

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to deliver them. Galileo Galilei

Even if it hurts at first, the truth is eventually freeing to both the one who expresses it and the one who hears it. Haemin Sunim

It is truth alone that gives strength. Swami Vivekananda

Truth can never come to us as long as we are selfish. Swami Vivekananda

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. Simone de Beauvoir

You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. Maya Angelou

To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Yoda

Only the mind that is totally impermanent, that is totally uncertain, can discover what is true because truth is not static. Jiddu Krishnamurti

That’s the most heroic thing we can do now: look the truth in the face. Sansa Stark

There are no truths, only moments of clarity passing for answers. Michel de Montaigne

We must ask questions, we must doubt everything anybody has said, books, religions, authorities, everything.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. Sylvester Stallone

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. David Foster Wallace

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own hearts. Ryōkan

We have art in order not to die of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

The seat of truth, is in our secret hearts, / Not in the tongue, which falsehood oft imparts. Brandon’s Octavia

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. Cato the Elder

The truth slips and turns. The facts remain the same. Joshua Brand

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires. William Hazlitt

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. Aristotle

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied. Ralph Ellison

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. th Dalai Lama

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed, all things rest upon truth. Chanakya

Tell the truth about what you are feeling. Tell the truth about what you are thinking. Tell the truth about what you are doing and why. Iyanla Vanzant

The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you’re running from the truth. David Goggins

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man. Mencius

Humans are not programmed for truth. They are programmed for survival. Thibaut

What we wish to be true clouds our perception of what is true. Suffering is that moment when we can no longer deny reality. Naval Ravikant

I was too enamored of truth ever to mourn lost illusions. Simone de Beauvoir

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. Ayn Rand

Part And the more silent you become, the easier to see the truth. Kunal

People get the most upset when you tell them true things they wish were false. Sam Altman

May the truth be your armour.
The Stoic Emperor

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. Clarence Darrow

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. Brene Brown

You can choose to ignore the truth but you can’t to ignore the consequences. Carlos Del Valle

An honest man will sometimes repeat himself. A liar can always find a surprising new angle. The truth resembles itself. The Stoic Emperor

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Elvis Presley

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy

Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Franz Kafka

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Hypatia

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone

It is perfectly monstrous.. the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true. Oscar Wilde

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy

We don’t tell ourselves the truth because it’s easier to protect our view of ourselves and the world than it is to change our minds. Shane Parrish

To understand, mind-heart must unburden itself of its accumulation so that it is capable of right perception.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

But even celebrities, if truth be told, must have their small quiet moments of clarity. Moments where they are not rich and famous, they just . . . are. Roz Swartz Williams

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche

Movies, novels and books have sensationalized and downplayed stories of addiction to the point that the truth is now mostly lost with many viewing addiction as cool and just a rite of passage. Rachel Meyers,

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up. Lilly Wachowski

Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth. Eric Thomas

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. Augustine of Hippo

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

The surest sign of the truth is simplicity and clarity. Lie is always complicated, pretentious and wordy. Leo Tolstoy

If I want to find out what truth is, not knowing what it is, I must be able to see what is false. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Take it straight from the horse’s mouth. Francis Iles

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil. William Shakespeare

Compulsive liars and compulsive truth tellers will both tend to lose friends as quickly as they make them. The Stoic Emperor

We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality. Daniel J. Boorstin

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
William James

Many of us live in two worlds when it comes to relationships. In one we have connection without truth; in the other we have truth without connection. Henry Cloud, John Townsend

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. Robert Greene

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide Ice Cube

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. Lao Tzu

The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies. Jodi Picoult

The most interesting thing you can say is the most honest. Rorty Witt

Devotion requires a willingness, openness and readiness to embrace the truth. It is a process of opening yourself to receive what already is. God’s goodness and love already exist. God’s love leads us to the truth. Iyanla Vanzant

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Liu Xiaobo

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand. Khalil Gibran

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. George Orwell

Silence screams the truth. Gabby Bernstein

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. Noam Chomsky

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself. And a man who aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any field of life.
Gandhi

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein

Most people prefer easy lies over uncomfortable truths. Bill Masur

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