1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. Wilson

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
Mitt Romney

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais

There's no truth anymore.
Johnny Depp

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
Yogi Berra

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Bill Gates

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose Bierce

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus Christ

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher