Inspiring Truth Quotes, Sayings
Unleash the power of truth! Ignite your spirit and illuminate your path with this collection of inspiring truth quotes.
Discover what wise minds — from famous writers to philosophers and more — have said about the essence of truth throughout history.
These nuggets of wisdom offer a guiding light that empowers us, challenges us, and even comforts us in uncertain times. Read on!
Best truth quotes
1. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
2. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
3. The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
4. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
5. Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
Stephanie Klein
6. No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La Rochefoucauld
7. Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
8. People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.
George R.R. Martin
9. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Inspirational sayings
10. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
11. 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
12. I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John Lennon
Short truth quotes for Instagram
1. The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon
2. The only truth is music.
Jack Kerouac
3. Be mindful / Be grateful / Be positive / Be true / Be kind.
Roy T. Bennett
4. Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
5. There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
6. Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
7. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
8. Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
9. The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
Funny truth quotes
1. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
2. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
3. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
S.E. Hinton
4. Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
5. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston S. Churchill
6. Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain
7. That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.
Tim O’Brien
Truth quotes about life
1. The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
2. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O’Connor
3. The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace
4. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
5. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.
Mahatma Gandhi
6. Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert Camus
7. We learned about honesty and integrity—that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle Obama
8. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone
9. Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
Michelle Hodkin
10. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
About lies
11. The best lies were always mixed with truth.
Sarah J. Maas
12. A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
13. When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
14. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Famous quotes about truth
1. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
2. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
John Keats
3. The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo
4. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
5. Oh, what a tangled web we weave… when first we practice to deceive.
Walter Scott
6. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
7. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
8. Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.
George Washington
9. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
10. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Popular truth sayings
- The truth hurts.
- Truth lies somewhere inbetween.
- The truth is what I say it is.
- Truth is stranger than fiction.
11. Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
12. Speak truth to power.
Bayard Rustin
13. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain
14. But in the end truth will out.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
15. If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8, The Bible
From TV & movies
16. The truth is out there.
X-Files
17. You can’t handle the truth!
A Few Good Men
18. Truth, justice, and the American way!
Superman
From famous authors
19. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
20. There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
21. “The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
22. There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Maya Angelou
23. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
24. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.
Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
25. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway
26. Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
27. 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
28. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell, 1984
Truth quotes about love and relationships
1. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
2. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
Dorothy Allison
Inspiring quotes about truth from philosophy
1. The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
2. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
3. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
4. Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
Gautama Buddha
Wise sayings
5. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Soren Kierkegaard
6. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
7. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
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By Greg Johnson | Published 5/22/24
