Truth Quotes

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

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

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.