Truth Quotes
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Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Isabel Allende
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison
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I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.
Jay IDK
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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
Behdad Sami
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
Nicholas Delbanco
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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
Plato
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
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We are all afraid of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.
G. Edward Griffin
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Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
Yasmin Mogahed
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I think that if Americans put critical thought, which I think they will, into what they are reading in these newspapers and actually what is being accomplished by the Trump administration, they would realize that the press in many cases has not been doing their job in reporting the truth.
Reince Priebus
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)
John Hodgman
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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If he's happy to sit on an electric chair and tell a truth or a lie then I'm happy to sit on an electric chair and we'll see what the outcome is, because I've got no doubt in my mind what happened.
Billy Davies
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Question your answers, Truth has no anger
Ed Roland
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Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
Sophocles
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We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.
Charles Dickens
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I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
George Michael
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The truth is this is a very dangerous world.
Mike Rogers