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.

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

J. Michael Straczynski

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

Jacques Derrida

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

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

Shannon L. Alder

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Sigmund Freud

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone de Beauvoir

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Søren Kierkegaard

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

Jenny Han

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

Jim Elliot

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St. Vincent de Paul

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

T.F. Hodge

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

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Tim O'Brien

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

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

Joe Abercrombie

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

John Green

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

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

John Paul II

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

John Steinbeck

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Joss Whedon

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

V.C. Andrews

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Joyce Carol Oates

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Joyce Cary

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Judith Lewis Herman

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

Juliet Marillier

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