Truth Quotes
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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
William Shakespeare
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Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
Meister Eckhart
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke Nazareth
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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
Jay-Z
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As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
Brion Gysin
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Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
Joanne Rowling
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The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
Thomas Carlyle
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will Durant
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.
Edna Buchanan
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
Epictetus
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I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.
Jay IDK
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I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
Glen Campbell
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God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
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When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem.
Jeff Zucker
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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
Plato
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There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'
Emilia Clarke
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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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Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.
William Peter Hamilton