100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

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

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

Gayle Forman

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

V.C. Andrews

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

James Joyce

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

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

Myra McEntire

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Albert Camus

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

Ellen DeGeneres

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Pablo Picasso

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

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

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

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

J.D. Salinger

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Ami McKay

I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.

Melina Marchetta

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

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Kami Garcia

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Mark Twain

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

Henry David Thoreau

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Albert Camus

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Leo Tolstoy

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

Pat Conroy

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Stephen King

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

Veronica Roth

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Richard Dawkins

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

David Sedaris

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Gregory David Roberts

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Karen Marie Moning

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