Truth Quotes

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

~ David Reeves

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

~ Stefan Molyneux

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

~ Roberto Bolaño

There are no whole truths, all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

I have learned that if you fake your life it will kill you slowly, terribly and cause the most pain for everyone. You try to do the right thing, not hurt anyone, conform to what love is supposed to be and what it is supposed to look like, but in the end it destroys you. It eats away at your heart and soul like acid. You slowly destroy those around you that you say you love, and you slowly destroy yourself.

~ Mark D'arbanville

I do believe you think what now you speak,But what we do determine oft we break.Purpose is but the slave to memory,Of violent birth, but poor validity,Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.Most necessary ’tis that we forgetTo pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.What to ourselves in passion we propose,The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

~ William Shakespeare

You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you.

~ Colozeus Benz

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one’s own age.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was as close to me as my own skin, and I could now feel the undiluted pleasure of her company.

~ David Sedaris

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

~ Socrates

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.

~ Keith Moon

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?LENORE: I would kill for a shower.

~ David Foster Wallace

The day my mother gave us the keys, she also made me and Greta sign a form so that the bank knew our signatures. To get in we had to show our key and sign something so they would know it was really us. I was worried that my signature wouldn't look the same. I wasn't sure when that thing would happen that made it so you always signed your name exactly the same, but it hadn't happened to me yet. So far I'd only had to sign something three times. Once for a code of conduct for the eighth grade field trip to Philadelphia, once for a pact I made with Beans and Frances Wykoski in fifth grade that we'd never have boyfriends until high school. (Of the three of us, I'm the only one who kept that pact.)

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything?

~ L.m. Fields

And trust dies from ifs and buts

~ Aidan Chambers

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

~ J.g. Ballard

It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, because anyone who knows you knows what a great guy you are on the inside. You're honest and true.

~ Jon Steele

It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.

~ Derek Preston

But as to your writing me that I don’t love you very much, I don’t know whether you’re saying this in earnest or whether I should realise that you’re joking with me. Still, what you say disturbs me. You are measuring a very healthy expression of a wife’s loyalty by the standard of the insincere flattery of well-worn phrases. But I shall love you, my husband. What does it mean to you that you reassure me with those trivial little compliments? Do you want me to believe that you expect me to comb my hair in a stylish fashion for your homecoming? Or to feign adoring looks with a painted face? Let women without means, who worry and have no confidence in their virtue, flutter their eyelashes and play games to gain favour with their husbands. This is the adulation of a fox and the birdlime of deceitful bird hunting. I don’t want to have to buy you at such a price. I’m not a person who lays more stock in words than duty. I am truly your Laura, whose soul is the same one you in turn had hoped for.

~ Laura Cereta

Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth.

~ Anurag Bhatt

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

~ A.w. Tozer

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

~ Akira Kurosawa

A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.

~ Al David

One lie can tarnish a thousand truths.

~ Al David

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

You must keep looking on the bright side, because you won't find anything in the dark.

~ Zack W. Van

WE IGNORED TRUTHS FOR TEMPORARY HAPPINESS.

~ Bunny Naidu

Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you're a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity.

~ D.s. Mixell

It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

~ Anthony De Mello

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

~ Debasish Mridha

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused metaphysical anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was very bad for everyone. The Tribe started to produce toxins that poisoned it. Its long-term survival was more important than short-term knowledge of the truth. If an eye had seen something that the brain knew was dangerous for the rest of the organism, it was better for the brain to put out that eye.

~ Bernard Werber

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.

~ Pierre-Simon Laplace