It is essential to be in accordance with fact and reality. Truth is of great significance not only to us but also to society as a whole. It means that we can grow and mature and continue on to learn from mistakes. Its importance is also necessary for society as it makes bonds that can only be broken by lying and being hypocritical. When honesty is the foundation of any relationship it forms respect and loyalty. We are more confident and we don’t have to worry about being accepted and acknowledged for who we are. When you feel safe to express your feelings, views and beliefs, this freedom and feeling of lightness will be of benefit in all fields in life.
Truth is a value that enables us to see the world without bias and makes us function and act according to honest morals and ethics. It is the main foundation of every character and it is courageous living with ideals in harmony. When one speaks with love and honesty, then no matter what is being spoken, whether one agrees or understand, it will always be received with respect. Therefore, sharing our perspective, opening up to someone or telling our story can only be of benefit to any relationship, if it a fact. However, it all starts in believing in yourself and this will result in encouraging others to do the same, and will inspire those around you to speak up and face any situation as the best possible result will come of it.
Here you will find a great variety of quotes that will motivate friends and loved ones to be inspired and with wise words to find the courage to find the courage to be brave and honest.
Table of Contents
- Short Truth Quotes
- Best Truth Quotes
- Telling The Truth Quotes
- Quotes About Truth and Lies
- Quotes On Truth and Honesty
- Truth Hurts Quotes
- Famous Truth Quotes
- Insightful Truth Quotes
- Poetic Truth Quotes
- 1984 Truth Quotes
- Funny Truth Quotes
- Truth Quotes On Images
Short Truth Quotes
- The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Bible, John 8:32
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Walden
- There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- If you cannot afford to waste time, you will never find the truth. Yuval Noah Harari
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
- The only truth is music.
- Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. A Game of Thrones
- The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
- Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- The color of truth is grey.
- Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
- The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. Plato
- You should not honor men more than truth.
- Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain.
- Love truth, but pardon error.
- Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.
- Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.
- It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
- In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. Dalai Lama
- Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
- Truth is a matter of the imagination.
- Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
- The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
- When everything gets answered, it’s fake.
- Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be…
- Don’t ask me nothing about nothing, I just might tell you the truth. Bob Dylan
- The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
- Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron
- Truth. As terrible as death. But harder to find.
- Be a true Heart, not a follower.
- Befriend the truth and make it your ally in all things. The Stoic Emperor
- For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
- You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Richard Feynman
- We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.
- Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
- Facts are the enemy of truth.
- When in doubt tell the truth. Mark Twain
- Anything more than the truth would be too much. Robert Frost
- The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
Best Truth Quotes
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. George Orwell
- 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.
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Meditations
- Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. When Nietzsche Wept
- Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
- The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
- Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
- If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
- You go to remote corners of the earth to find truth, but truth is just around the corner, here! Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. “One word of truth outweighs the world.
- Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
- The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
- Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself. Noam Chomsky
- Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
- Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
- Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- I don’t have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.
- I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. Cato the Elder
- In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safe companion than a pleasant falsehood. Theodore Roosevelt
- Dare to find your own truth, despite what others say, then have the courage to live it. Laurence Overmire
Telling The Truth Quotes
- If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? Blindness
- Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
- If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.
- One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies. Ursula K. Le Guin
- Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. William Shakespeare, King Lear
- The only way to tell the truth is to speak it with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. Henry David Thoreau
- Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
- If you’re not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
- Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson
- If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. Marcus Tullius Cicero
- You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. Maya Angelou
- The young are not afraid of telling the truth. Anne Frank
- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. Emma
- Anxiety always originates from a lie…. What’s the solution? Speak the truth even if it scares you. Be authentic. Deborah Bravandt
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. Bertrand Russell
Quotes About Truth and Lies
- A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
- I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
- Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
- The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
- Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
- At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right.
- The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie. Paulo Coelho
Quotes On Truth and Honesty
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
- When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. Thomas Sowell
- It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. Nelson Mandela
- There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
- I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.
Truth Hurts Quotes
- In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. Wei Wu Wei
- Too many prefer gentle lies to hard truths. Shane Parrish
- Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie to make someone laugh. Paulo Coelho
- It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. James Baldwin
- Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Famous Truth Quotes
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
- Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
- There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. War and Peace
- 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.
- Hell is truth seen too late. Leviathan
- I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
- I was too enamored of truth ever to mourn lost illusions. Simone de Beauvoir
- Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
- The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
- A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
- I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
- Only doubtful truths need defense. Alan Watts
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
- Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. Malcolm X
- Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
- To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
- The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
- I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. The Count of Monte Cristo
- I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older. Michel de Montaigne
- Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. Marcus Aurelius
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. Thomas Jefferson
Insightful Truth Quotes
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle
- Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
- It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
- We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. Seneca
- Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.
- We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
- 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.
- I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
- 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
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. Oscar Wilde
- We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”
- The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
- A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don’t believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. East of Eden
- We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God. Desmond Tutu
Poetic Truth Quotes
- Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
- There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. East of Eden
- The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore
- Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
- I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.
- You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
- The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
- The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. Emily Dickinson
- The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
- By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. Orlando
- 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.
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
1984 Truth Quotes
- In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. 1984
- Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. 1984
- Sanity is not statistical. George Orwell, 1984
- He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. 1984
Funny Truth Quotes
- The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
- The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
- You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
- The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
- What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
- We are never definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong. Richard Feynman
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Truth Quotes On Images
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