Best Quotes About Truth

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Justice is truth in action.

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

Live truth instead of professing it.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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

Facts are stubborn things.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.