In this post, you will find great Truth Quotes from famous people, such as Andre Gide, J. B. Pritzker, Ismail Haniyeh, John Howard, Friedrich Nietzsche. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Tell the children the truth.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
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.
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Humor is something that thrives between man‘s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
The object of the superior man is truth.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
When in doubt tell the truth.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
You know what the Englishman‘s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday‘s heresies may be tomorrow‘s conventional wisdom.
The truth doesn’t change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That’s the thing about the truth. That’s the thing about real. It doesn’t change and it doesn’t have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
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.
Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
Justice is truth in action.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
Truth is the best defense.
Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Silence is the mother of truth.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician‘s objective. Election and power are.
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.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they’re a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what’s far out and what’s reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Sincerity is moral truth.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Facts are stubborn things.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it’s stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that’s where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
The truth is more important than the facts.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
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.
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Truth is always a delusion.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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.
I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
It’s always good news when you’re closer to the truth.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‘This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Truth is what works.
There’s no truth anymore.
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
I’m not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that’s the best way.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
You never monkey with the truth.
If you’re not talking about the truth, I don’t even want you around me.
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
This is my truth, tell me yours.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it’s not about truth and justice or balance. It’s about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you’re putting the wrong person behind bars.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again.
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
We are free to yield to truth.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
