1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
Prince William

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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