1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
Whitney Houston

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus Christ

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop