Truth Quotes

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

~ Joseph P. Bradley

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

~ John Shelby Spong

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

~ Sam Harris

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

~ James Fenimore Cooper

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

~ Philip James Bailey

Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

~ Ram Dass

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.

~ Brigham Young

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

~ Elvis Presley

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

~ Ismail Haniyeh

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

~ Unknown

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

~ David Bowie

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

~ Swami Vivekananda

You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend.

~ Donald Driver

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

~ Giordano Bruno

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

~ Francis Bacon

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

~ Kendrick Lamar

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

~ Thomas Huxley

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

~ François Rabelais

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

~ Coco Chanel

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

~ Virginia Woolf

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

~ Frank Sinatra

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

~ Hypatia

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

~ Jeremy Clarkson

In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

~ William Wallace

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

~ Vanessa Kerry

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

~ Henry A. Wallace

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

~ Carl Bernstein

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

~ Bo Bennett

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

~ Hannah Arendt

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

~ George Orwell

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

~ Kim Il-Sung

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

~ Noam Chomsky