Truth Quotes

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."

"The object of the superior man is truth."

"Truth is a pathless land."

"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity."

"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."

"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."

"I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me."

"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

"Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie."

"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

"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."

"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."

"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."

"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."

"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies."

"Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit."

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness."

"Live truth instead of professing it."

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

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."