100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

361 Quotes

Browse our collection of Truth Sayings & Quotes from books from famous people around the world.

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Brent Weeks

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C.S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

C.S. Lewis

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

Anonymous

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

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Augustine of Hippo

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

C.S. Lewis

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Criss Jami

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Banksy

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

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

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

Criss Jami

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Hume

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Bram Stoker

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer? Sazed asked.I’d think that you were lying, Vin said.Have you known me to lie before?The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Brandon Sanderson

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

E.M. Forster

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

E.M. Forster

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

Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Gena Showalter

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

Brené Brown

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

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

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

George Bernard Shaw

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

Catherine of Siena

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