We have collected the best Truth Quotes by famous authors including C. S. Lewis, William Shenstone, Maya Angelou, Bruce Lee, Victor Borge and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Hu Shih
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
Franz Kafka
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Dorothy Thompson
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
Lily Tomlin
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Benjamin Franklin
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
My truth is that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Marian Keyes
We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Charles Stanley
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
David Whyte
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
Mary Leakey
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.
Mary Kom
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S Truman
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
David Mamet
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
Charlie Chaplin
The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.
Jason Momoa
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
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.
Carl Jung
The truth is that you shouldn’t match your insides to other people’s outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
Sia
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
Corliss Lamont
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
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Johnny Depp
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Protagoras
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Vanessa Kerry
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. Cole
This is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin Bevan
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustave Flaubert
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
NeNe Leakes
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
Peter Maurer
Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.
Justin Timberlake
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.
Merle Dandridge
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
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
Peter Lindbergh
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
Charles Lindbergh
You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz
The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
Che Guevara
Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
Arthur Rubinstein
The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
Elizabeth Thornton
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
William Bernbach
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.
Dan Rather
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
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
Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
Gloria Estefan
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Conor McGregor
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 I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Roland Barthes
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Gottfried Leibniz
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
Taika Waititi
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu Reeves
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Benito Mussolini
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
Willie Nelson
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley
The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.
Tyler Hamilton
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
Gerald R. Ford
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
Hans Eysenck
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
Larry Gelbart
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Ronald Reagan
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.
Siri Hustvedt
It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus Christ
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
Truth is the best defense.
Ward Churchill
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Thomas Brooks
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Herodotus
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
William Cullen Bryant
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
Tell the children the truth.
Bob Marley
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.
Sophocles
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Arthur Keith
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
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
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
Henry Rollins
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Unknown
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
Susan Barker
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
Charles Lindbergh
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
Oliver North
My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.
John Kennedy
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth is what works.
William James
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren Bennis
The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.
Vitor Belfort
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
Elizabeth Smart
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.
Aaron Brown
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
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.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Linus Pauling
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn
Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Michael Ignatieff
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Elvis Presley
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman Melville
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
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
Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
Jordan Peterson
People assume actors are born liars, but I’d argue the actor’s job is to tell the truth. And I’ve realised I’m not a good liar.
Cate Blanchett
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.
Nora Ephron
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
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi
In my reviews, I feel it’s good to make it clear that I’m not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.
Roger Ebert
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel Foucault
Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It’s not just about us, it’s not just about me, it’s not just about Rappler. Press freedom is… the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.
Maria Ressa
Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what’s needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
Kris Carr
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
David Icke
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Brian Eno
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
Anna Held
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Sincerity is moral truth.
George Henry Lewes
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
It’s always good news when you’re closer to the truth.
Fabiola Gianotti
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Vincent D’Onofrio
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann
What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
Tracey Emin
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard
There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
Maria Semple
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
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 want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
Don Miguel Ruiz
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
Jurgen Klopp
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Michael Kinsley
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali
I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.
River Phoenix
You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
Jane Fonda
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
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 cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
Frank Abagnale
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
Claire Fox
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they’re a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what’s far out and what’s reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
Helen Thomas
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it’s not about truth and justice or balance. It’s about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you’re putting the wrong person behind bars.
Brian Banks
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Dayananda Saraswati
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
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
Charles Seymour
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
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 M. Nixon
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.
Pearl S. Buck
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Peter Tosh
I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.
Brad Pitt
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Richard Avedon
Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.
El-P
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it’s a very powerful relationship if it’s healthy.
Goldie Hawn
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Thomas Brooks
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
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
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
John McCain
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
Future
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.
Khalil Gibran
I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.
Zack Greinke
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
Boris Johnson
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Mary Todd Lincoln
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
Kim Jong-un
The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.
John Kennedy
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Horace Walpole
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.
Flannery O’Connor
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
Abraham Lincoln
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Christopher Marlowe
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Willie Nelson
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Morris West
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Peter Hitchens
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Petrarch
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
John Howard
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Henry Rollins
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
Isaac Newton
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Alain Badiou
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
Pope Francis
To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it’s the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That’s where I get to delve into the characters’ minds and hearts. That’s where they become living, breathing beings to me.
George Perez
You never monkey with the truth.
Ben Bradlee
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler
The words of truth are simple.
Aeschylus
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
Ravi Zacharias
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
All religion seems to need to prove that it’s the only truth. And that’s where it turns demonic. Because that’s when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
John Shelby Spong
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape.
Busta Rhymes
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Richard Baker
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. Wilson
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they’re not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people’s lives than just truth. I can’t stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
Derek Cianfrance
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
Alice Walker
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, ‘Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.’ People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.
Wim Hof
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
Benjamin E. Mays
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Alice Koller
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Frank Herbert
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
John Churton Collins
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Maya Angelou
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus Christ
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
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
Kehinde Wiley
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That’s the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.
Greg Anderson
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson
The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
Henry Rollins
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
Brian Blessed
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
William Wallace
I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.
George T. Conway III
The core of my writing is not art but truth.
Philip K. Dick
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. Bradley
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don’t care.
Bikram Choudhury
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Sophocles
I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
Jacob Collier
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
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Eminem
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
Gordon B. Hinckley
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‘This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Ronald Reagan
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard
Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.
Simon Baron-Cohen
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Alan Cohen
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Leo Rosten
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frank Norris
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can… I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.
Mark Parker
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham Lincoln
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
H. Rap Brown
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
If you’re not talking about the truth, I don’t even want you around me.
Damon Dash
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
Vernon Howard
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Carl von Clausewitz
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
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
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Ellen G. White
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Helen Thomas
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
John Kennedy
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Nikola Tesla
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that’s written, anything that’s posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
Keri Hilson
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Tertullian
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Sophocles
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Patrick Kavanagh
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday’s heresies may be tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.
Dean Ornish
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
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
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I think all good reporting is the same thing – the best attainable version of the truth.
Carl Bernstein
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
Andrew J. Bernstein
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson I
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
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn’t so easily bent.
Angela Merkel
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Annie Jacobsen
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Wayne Dyer
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you’ll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there’s a lot of truth to that.
Tom Bodett
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
Whitney Houston
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill Hicks
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet
The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide
There’s no truth anymore.
Johnny Depp
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney Dangerfield
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert Camus
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Abraham Lincoln
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
Kim Jong-un
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
Joyce Brothers
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
It’s my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.
Stephen A. Smith
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Jessica Valenti
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
Bill Gates
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Adrienne Rich
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
David Icke
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O’Connor
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
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
Jordan Peterson
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Emile Zola
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
Joseph Prince
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther
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 truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Michelle Obama
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna
If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.
John Kennedy
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
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
I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
Drake
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps ‘lie’ is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
Iyanla Vanzant
Seek truth from facts.
Deng Xiaoping
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
Buddha
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.
Hunter S. Thompson
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.
Raj Thackeray
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.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
The truth does not need to be defended.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Adrienne Rich
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
Eartha Kitt
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don’t give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you’re not telling the truth. So it’s like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it’s too much for you.
Missy Elliott
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
Maria Ressa
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Louis Aragon
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
Bob Newhart
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star.
John Wayne
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
Terry Eagleton
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Jeanette Winterson
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Tom Hiddleston
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end.
Don Lemon
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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.
Khalil Gibran
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
John le Carre
I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.
Zack Greinke
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
Ken Burns
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth – share, not give. I think that’s what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
Gerard Way
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
Joyce Meyer
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
Bayard Rustin
When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
James Nachtwey
Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
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
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
Emily Murphy
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
Wole Soyinka
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Jacques Prevert
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.
Maya Angelou
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Don Miguel Ruiz
Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.
Lee Mack
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Truth is a pathless land.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
Cindy Sheehan
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
Thomas S. Monson
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai Stevenson II
There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.
George Michael
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will Rogers
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramakrishna
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.
Asma Jahangir
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong – and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope
Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible – to live in the truth, as I say – to get out of the lie.
Gilbert Baker
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Khalil Gibran
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Pietro Aretino
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel
To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view.
George Harrison
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
Peter Guber
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Thomas a Kempis
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
Boris Johnson
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Mason Cooley
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
Menachem Begin
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
Sheri Fink
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver
Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’
Brigham Young
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Grace Slick
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann
The truth is that the right decision often can’t be led with either head or heart exclusively.
Chris Harrison
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Kendrick Lamar
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn
Truth cannot be defeated.
Edwin Louis Cole
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Camillo di Cavour
You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.
Varg Vikernes
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto
You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler Yeats
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
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France
The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.
Joyce Meyer
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Harry Frankfurt
There’s a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood – that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
J. B. Pritzker
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch
