Truth Quotes

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

~ Charles Dickens

...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity.

~ Hermann Hesse

It was true—but it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.

~ Ryan Galloway

When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or at least Plato as summarized for her: that there was something dishonest about it and that he was right to want to banish the poets. What she mean't, she told me, was that the only reality was life, real life, and that these beautiful versions were lies and she no longer had patience for it.

~ Daphne Kalotay

Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.

~ K.j. Kilton

Words that are spoken are not TRUE,Feelings alone speak the TRUTH.

~ Sarvesh Murthi .D .D

Words can lie. See beyond them.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

~ Jewel

She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

What good are words if no one believes them?

~ Rachel L. Schade

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Her words dance on the page.

~ A.d. Posey

I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It’s time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It’s time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again

~ Camilo Garzon

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

~ David Mitchell

I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. But words are very inadequate – anyway, my words are.

~ Dodie Smith

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.

~ Mencius

You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

~ Beth Revis

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of the night,Under the veil it will ever remain,But may it ever be in my right,I know i have never said it in vain.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

~ Suzy Kassem

Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God’s love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

~ Paul Morabito

You do not need words to tell the truth.

~ Mia Hollow

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you are tempted to revealA tale to you someone has toldAbout another, make it pass,Before you speak, three gates of gold;These narrow gates. First, Is it true?Then, Is it needful? In your mindGive truthful answer. And the nextIs last and narrowest, Is it kind?And if to reach your lips at lastIt passes through these gateways three,Then you may tell the tale, nor fearWhat the result of speech may be.

~ Beth Day

Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both hope as well as despair. Words alone have ruined lives, but have also brought forth healing. It is well known the harm words can cause, but the good they can bring is equally impressive.

~ Steve Goodier

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

~ Munia Khan

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?

~ Ava Dellaira