Quotes about truth

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

— Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

— Richard Whately

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

— Walt Whitman

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

— Oscar Wilde

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

— Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

— Oscar Wilde

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

— Billy Wilder

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

— Virginia Woolf

The truth is more important than the facts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

— Orville Wright

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Emile Zola

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

— Emile Zola

Truth does not contradict truth.

— Elizer Zvi Zweifel

It is not down in any map, true places never are.

— Herman Mellville

Cynicism is indeed negative for your mind, but if you can allow it as your cloud to your sunshine, then it may strengthen you to see the truth.

— Qi Nyong

The real truth was taken by pirates and is at the bottom of the ocean. You will have to go deep to find it.

— James Dye

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

— Kedar Joshi

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

— Kedar Joshi

when you have eliminated the impossible , whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

— Socrates

Do not search for the truth, only cease to cherish opinions.

— Zen Saying

The truth is the truth and does not need believing.

— Daniella Kessler

[I am just saying that] Truth and Belief often parallel, but do not depend on one another.

— Daniella Kessler

In the essence of truth lies deceit. Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. These are the old truths. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Appreciate those who love you. Help those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Forget those who leave you.

— Abhishek Sureka

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

— Remy De Gourmont

Truth has nutritional value.

— Leslie Miklosy

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

— Galileo Galilei

It takes enough courage to accept the truth and it takes only truth to accept the courage.

— Anuj Somany

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

— Bo Bennett

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

— Voltaire

You never find yourself, until you face the truth.

— Pearl Bailey

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

— Jeffrey Fry

Truth never reaches the foolhardy >

— Ravindran

Truth never speaks to us through fear.

— Darla LeDoux

When people get's pisst just because you told the truth. Look at them and say. At least I told it. proved it and showed it. and walk away. -Natsumi Katou

— Source Unknown

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

— Winston Churchill

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

— Susan Sontag

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Look to the mirror and accept your truth

— ranka dharam

When men at forward fail to achieve the goal, they describe the victory lies in defending.

— mirza sharafat hussain zarafshan