1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Albert Schweitzer

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton