Truth Quotes

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Han Suyin

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For 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

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.

Henry Mille

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexande

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Nozick

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Scarface

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Prove

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, -

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

Great is truth, and all powerful.

Vulgate

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

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

Bible, John 8: 32

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Anthony de Mello

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Spencer Churchill

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

Greek Prove