Truth Quotes

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
– Kahlil Gibran
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
– Jerome K. Jerome
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
– Henry Miller
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
– George Santayana
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
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
– Thomas Sowell
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
– Mark Twain
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
– Malcolm X
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality
– Chuck Palahniuk
A lot of truth is said in jest.
– Eminem
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 E. Stevenson Jr.
You've got to demand the truth from yourself.
– Glenn Beck
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
– Ron White
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
– Aldous Huxley
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
– Annie Leibovitz
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
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.
– Thomas a Kempis
When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.
– Amber Frey
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
– Barry White
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
– Ang Lee
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
– Warren Buffett
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
– Marcel Proust
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
– Javier Bardem
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
– William James
Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
– Neal Boortz
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
– George Washington
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
– Herman Melville
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
– W. Clement Stone
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
– David Hume
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
– John Updike
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
– William James
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
– Herman Melville
Truth is what works.
– William James
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
– Theodor Adorno
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
– Vernon Howard
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
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 something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
– Anais Nin
Truth is in things, and not in words.
– Herman Melville
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
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 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.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
– A. N. Wilson
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
– Tertullian
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
– George Eliot
Truth cannot be defeated.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
– Swami Vivekananda
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
– Will Durant
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
– H. P. Lovecraft
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 rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
– Victor Hugo
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
– Jonathan Frid
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
– Bill Maher
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
– Novalis
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
– Rabindranath Tagore
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
– Milan Kundera
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
– Willie Nelson
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
– Joseph Joubert
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
– William James
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
– Johann Arndt
This is my truth, tell me yours.
– Aneurin Bevan
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
– William Cowper
There's no truth anymore.
– Johnny Depp
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
– John Ruskin
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
– Nikolai Berdyaev
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
– Sir William Osler
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
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
– Josefina Vazquez Mota
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
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
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
– William Hazlitt
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
– Ramakrishna
The words of truth are simple.
– Aeschylus
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
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
– Leonardo da Vinci
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
– Robert H. Schuller
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
– Terry Pratchett
The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.
– Pat Robertson
The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
– Brooke Burke
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
– Sloane Crosley
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
– Carly Fiorina
The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.
– Jerry Seinfeld
The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
– Daniel Craig
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
– George Bernard Shaw
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
– Bob Schieffer
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
– Muhammad Iqbal
The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.
– Hillary Clinton
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
– Richard Roeper
The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
– Dylan Moran
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
– Anatole France
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
– George McGovern
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
– Oscar Wilde