Truth Quotes

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Tell the truth — or, at least, don't lie."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self."

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me."

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and the truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world is being destroyed."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"To be authentic, we must cultivate the courage to be imperfect – and to set boundaries. To be authentic is to be the author of our own life."

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

"Lying is the royal road to chaos."

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."

"The truth is that which has predictive power."

"The object of the superior man is truth."

"Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

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

"Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in gods and in men; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will get neither comfort nor truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."