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.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.

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

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

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

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.