Truth Quotes

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

~ David Foster Wallace

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. I'm okay we say. I'm alright. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

~ Markus Zusak

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

~ George R.r. Martin

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

~ Tim O'brien

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

~ George Washington

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

~ Lemony Snicket

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

~ Katherine Boo

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

~ Kahlil Gibran

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

~ George R.r. Martin

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

~ Ayn Rand

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

~ Malcolm X

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

~ Oscar Wilde

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

~ Lao Tzu

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

~ Cassandra Clare

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

~ Cassandra Clare

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

~ Lemony Snicket

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

~ T.s. Eliot

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

~ Wallace Stevens

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

~ J.d. Salinger

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

~ Jessamyn West

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

~ Walt Whitman

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

~ Carl Sagan

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

~ Terry Goodkind

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

~ George Orwell

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

~ Ally Carter

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

~ Carl Sagan

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

~ Oscar Wilde

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

~ Delia Ephron

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

~ George Orwell

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

~ Jodi Picoult

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

~ Dorothy Allison

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

~ Karen Marie Moning