1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon

A writer's job is to tell the truth.
Andy Rooney

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
Donald Trump

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler Yeats

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill Hicks