Truth Quotes

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
-Spinoza

"How typical of humans... Your eyes are clouded so you cannot see... Even though the truth is always within you..."
-Vampire Princess Miyu

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come an understanding of its inadequacy."
-Carl Jung

"Truth fears no trial."
-Proverb

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
-Malcolm Xv

"Lying is the most simple form of self-defence."
-Susan Sontag"

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King

"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
-Mahatma Gandhi"

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
-Albert Einstein

"Love truth, but pardon error."
-Voltaire

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
-Mark Twain

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
-Edith Sitwell

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
-Chief Joseph

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession."
-Albert Einstein

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
-William Blake

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
-Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"No one is entitled to the truth."
-E. Howard Hunt

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
-Thomas Jefferson

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
-Jerome K. Jerome

"A lie told often enough becomes truth."
-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
-H. L. Mencken

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

"No amount of belief makes something a fact."
-Unknown

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

"This above all; to thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare

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