Truth Quotes

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

~ Erica Jong

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

~ Sara Shepard

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

~ Mary E. Pearson

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

~ Scott Lynch

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

~ Mark Helprin

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

~ Criss Jami

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

~ Victor Hugo

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

~ José N. Harris

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.

~ Cassandra Clare

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

~ Jess C. Scott

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

~ Albert Camus

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he askedMacy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

~ Sarah Dessen

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

~ D. Aswini

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

~ Stephen Fry

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

~ Orson Scott Card

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.

~ Rosamund Hodge

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.

~ Kahlil Gibran

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

~ Anton Szandor Lavey

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

~ Pablo Picasso

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

~ Jacques Derrida

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

~ Muriel Rukeyser

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- No, YOU move.

~ J. Michael Straczynski

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

~ Frank Herbert

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

~ Jim Elliot

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

~ Greta Garbo

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

~ Malcolm X

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

~ Carl Sagan

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

~ Robin S. Sharma

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

~ Lynn Marie Sager

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin