Truth - Quotes & Sayings

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

Stella Adler

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Rodney Dangerfield

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

Pep Guardiola

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Stella Adler

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

Martin Henderson

I think the truth is black-and-white.

Nancy Grace

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Helen Thomas

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mahatma Gandhi

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

Guru Nanak

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Aesop

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

Don Miguel Ruiz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Gottfried Leibniz

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Venus Williams

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Wayne Dyer

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

Rumi

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

William Wallace

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Kate Winslet

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Buddha

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Peter Abelard

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

Vivek Wadhwa

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

Brittany Murphy

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Karen Gillan

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Mason Cooley

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.

Glen Campbell

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Carl von Clausewitz

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Josh Billings

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

P. T. Barnum

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.

Tiffany Haddish

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Lao Tzu