Discover the power of honesty with Truth Quotes
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about truth, integrity, and authenticity.
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importance of honesty in life, love, and relationships.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.― Mark Twain
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
Truth Quotes
No legacy is so rich as honesty. – William Shakespeare
What people believe prevails over the truth.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. —Kahlil Gibran, writer and artist
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. ― Marilyn Monroe
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it. Confucius
People who pride themselves on their complexity and deride others for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.— Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
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.
“We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see.
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. —Rabindranath Tagore, polymath and modernist
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. – Michelle Obama
Blaise Pascal Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.— Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker
Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking.
The concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
It’s safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.— Arthur Schopenhauer,
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.― George Carlin
The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle. – Adrienne C. Moore
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin
Don’t believe everything at face value. Be aware that liars can use the truth to trick us.
Jean Cocteau Truth is too naked. It does not stimulate men.— Jean Cocteau
Sometimes what Satan says is true, to make us more ready to believe his lies.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. Kahlil Gibran
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.— G. K. Chesterton,
When people are drunk, what they say is often true. People often speak the truth when they lose their self-control.
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.
The face of Truth is hidden by a golden disk. O Pushan
The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The truth is effortless. —Rashida Costa, actress and playwright, in 365 Days Smarter
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. – Albert Einstein
All great truths begin as blasphemies.— George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925
It is difficult to argue against facts. We cannot refute what is true.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.― Mark Twain
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. —Thomas Jefferson, former U.S. president
Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth. Eric Thomas
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth— Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence
Real life can be more amazing and difficult to believe than made-up stories.
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. —David Foster Wallace, author
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.― Mark Twain
To reach that end goal you and I must be willing to be straightforward with one another. We must be willing and prepared to stare at ourselves in the mirror and speak the truth. —Mark Devro, self-help coach, in Forever in Bloom
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. – Alice Cary
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. Richard Nixon
Albert Einstein Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
Facts are facts. What is true is true, and it does not need decoration.
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.― George Orwell, 1984
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. —Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian political leader
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. – Malcolm X
The truth is, those who consistently lack positive emotions in their lives more often than not tend to generate much of the world’s unkindness. Michael J. Chase, am I being kind
Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.— Charles Caleb Colton,
In the end, what is true will come to be known. The truth always appears eventually, despite all efforts to hide it. It is impossible to keep something secret forever
The only true law is that which leads to freedom,’ Jonathan said. ‘There is no other.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to have a healthy mind, you must feed your mind with truth. —Rick Warren, pastor and author
Life goes on, and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty
The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.— Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always. ― Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. —Laozi, ancient philosopher
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch
Aldοus Huxley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer
Truth is that which is; it is nameless. And so, the mind cannot approach it
For in spite of his lonely past, Jonathan Seagull was born to be an instructor, and his own way of demonstrating love was to give something of the truth that he had seen to a gull who asked only a chance to see truth for himself.
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. —W. Somerset Maugham, writer. Speaking of believing, do you believe in karma? These karma quotes might make you a believer!
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. Aristotle
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.— Ayn Rand,
My answer is simply, that it is because I am not an adversary of democracy, that I have sought to speak of democracy in all sincerity. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.
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, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
