100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

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

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Charlaine Harris

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Chuck Palahniuk

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Chuck Palahniuk

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

Hlovate

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Clive Barker

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

Cormac McCarthy

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Criss Jami

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

D. Aswini

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Irvin D. Yalom

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Italo Calvino

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

J.D. Salinger

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

J.D. Salinger

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

Jacqueline Carey

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

David Levithan

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

David Sedaris

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Deepak Chopra

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

Delia Ephron

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Diane Setterfield

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Jess C. Scott

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

John Keats

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Doris Lessing

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

Dorothy Parker

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

John Locke

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

José N. Harris

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

Julien Smith

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

June Ahern

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

L.M. Montgomery

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

Lauren DeStefano

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

Dwight L. Moody

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

E. Lockhart

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Ludwig Boltzmann

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