Truth Quotes

The truth shall make you free.

Bible - John 8:32

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

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

Jerome K. Jerome

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Samuel Johnson

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.

Walter Savage Landor

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Mark Twain

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde