Truth Quotes

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

~ Flannery O'connor

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

~ Steve Jobs

You should never read just for enjoyment. Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick hard books. Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth. Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of literature? That means fiction, too, stupid.

~ John Waters

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

~ June Ahern

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

~ Douglas Adams

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

~ Pema Chödrön

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

~ José N. Harris

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

~ Orson Scott Card

This above all: to thine own self be true.

~ William Shakespeare

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

~ Isaac Newton

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

~ Kami Garcia

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

~ Voltaire

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

~ René Descartes

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

~ Moderata Fonte

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

~ Elvis Presley

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

~ Katherine Mansfield

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

~ Scott Westerfeld

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

~ Sigmund Freud

I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.

~ Natsuki Takaya

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

~ Warsan Shire

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.

~ Suzanne Collins

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

~ Helen Keller

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

~ Brené Brown

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

~ John Keats

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

~ Gena Showalter

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

~ Veronica Roth

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

~ Simone Elkeles

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

~ Holly Black

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

~ Carl Sagan

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

~ Harold Pinter

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

~ Michael Jackson