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300+ Best Truth Quotes About Truth And Lies | quotes On Truth
Quotes on truthA taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. -Albert Camus
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. -Bob Dylan
Light is the symbol of truth. -James Russell Lowell
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -Hunter S. Thompson
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -Albert Camus
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
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
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. -Voltaire
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. -Horace Mann
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. -James A. Garfield
Universal truth quotes
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
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. -Denis Diderot
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
Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth. -Justin Timberlake
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. -David Icke
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. -Thomas Mann
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. -J. K. Rowling
Bitter truth of life quotes
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. -Steven Biko
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -Niels Bohr
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -Robert H. Schuller
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. -Emile Zola
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. -Henry Rollins
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
Quotes on truth of life
Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. -Frank A. Clark
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. -Arthur Miller
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf
Quotes about the truthTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy
Quotes about the truth
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. -Leo Tolstoy
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. -Aesop
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. -Prince William
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. -Emily Dickinson
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -Jesus Christ
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying. -Josh Billing
Adversity is the first path to truth. -Lord Byron(Truth quotes)
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me. -Simone de Beauvoir
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. -Andy Rooney
When in doubt tell the truth. -Mark Twain
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. -Mark Twain
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. -Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. -Thomas Jefferson
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. -Winston Churchill
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Bitter truth of life quotesThere is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’ -Abraham Lincoln
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -Winston Churchill
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -Charles Spurgeon
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -John F. Kennedy
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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. -Khalil Gibran
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn’t. -Mark Twain
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. -Muhammad Ali
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. -Albert Einstein
Bitter truth quotes
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. -Buddha
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. -Bo Bennett
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -Albert Einstein
The truth quotesTruth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. -Jean Rostand
The truth quotes
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. -Jean Rostand
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. -Khalil Gibran
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. -William Shenstone
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
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -Khalil Gibran
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. -Mahatma Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mahatma Gandhi
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. -Mahatma Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent. -Mahatma Gandhi
Truth hurts quotesMy religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. -Mahatma Gandhi
