1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


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

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

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

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

A 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

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King

The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.
Chanakya