100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston S. Churchill

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.

Rosamund Hodge

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Anne Brontë

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

Kristin Cashore

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Jodi Picoult

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Irvin D. Yalom

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

John Paul II

Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

Aeschylus

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Lemony Snicket

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

Alison Goodman

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Maya Angelou

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

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Stephen Fry

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

Anne Frank

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Jodi Picoult

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

June Ahern

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

Philip K. Dick

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

P.C. Hodgell

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

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

Douglas Adams

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Jodi Picoult

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

P.D. Ouspensky

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.

Shannon L. Alder

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

Garth Stein

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Isaac Bashevis Singer

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Kurt Cobain

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

Brené Brown

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

Ruta Sepetys

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Al David

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Ray Bradbury

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

David Foster Wallace

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

Helen Keller

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

John Steinbeck

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Ally Carter

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