100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

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I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

Ally Carter

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Brent Weeks

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Jodi Picoult

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Lemony Snicket

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

David Hume

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Jeffery Deaver

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Terry Goodkind

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

Jacqueline Carey

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Terry Goodkind

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Terry Goodkind

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.

Turcois Ominek

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Ally Carter

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Warsan Shire

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Joe Abercrombie

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

Gautama Buddha

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Joe Abercrombie

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

Gautama Buddha

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Italo Calvino

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

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Terry Pratchett

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

You should not honor men more than truth.

Plato

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

David Levithan

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Terry Pratchett

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

René Descartes

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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