100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

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Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

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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.

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The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

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Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

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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.

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You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

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Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

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We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

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A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

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My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

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

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Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

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It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

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True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

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Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

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Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

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It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

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I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.

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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

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Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.

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

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I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

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I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

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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.

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