1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. Truman

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore

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.
Thomas Merton

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

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.
Carl Jung

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer