100+ Truth Quotes & Sayings

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The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Neal A. Maxwell

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Sara Gruen

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

Sara Shepard

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

Michael H. Hart

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Sara Shepard

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

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

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman

Beware:Ignorance Protects itself.IgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows.

Octavia E. Butler

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Criss Jami

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

José N. Harris

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

Katherine Boo

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…

Ned Vizzini

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Katherine Dunn

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Jess C. Scott

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

Simone de Beauvoir

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Franz Kafka

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

Delia Ephron

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

Sarah Addison Allen

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Paul Auster

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Kathryn Stockett

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Simone Elkeles

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Rachel Maddow

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

E.M. Forster

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

D. Aswini

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

E.M. Forster

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

Hermann Hesse

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anaïs Nin

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

H.G. Wells

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Michelle Hodkin

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

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