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.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

George Eliot

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!

George Gordon Byron

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

George Orwell

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

P.D. Ouspensky

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Paul Auster

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

Philip K. Dick

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

George Orwell

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

George Orwell

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R.R. Martin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

George R.R. Martin

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Robin McKinley

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Robin S. Sharma

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Romain Rolland

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Gregory David Roberts

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H.G. Wells

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Harper Lee

Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.

Harper Lee

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.

Rosamund Hodge

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.

Homer

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

S.E. Hinton

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

Santosh Kalwar

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Sean Penn

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

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

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

Isaac Newton

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