Truth Quotes

"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have."

Elizabeth Bowen

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Charles Dickens

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Albert Einstein

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

Aesop

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge."

Confucius

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."

"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there."

"Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die."

"Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters its seeds broadcast."

"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

"If one does not lie to one's own conscience, one lives in the hearts of all."

Thiruvalluvar

"Of all the things we have seen as truly real, nothing is better than truthfulness."

Thiruvalluvar

"Even a falsehood takes the place of truth if it brings pure good, free from all fault."

Thiruvalluvar

"The hero of my tale – whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is and will be beautiful – is Truth."

Leo Tolstoy

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

Charles Darwin

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."

Francis Bacon

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."

John Locke

"The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

Edgar Allan Poe

"Truth is always the strongest argument."

Sophocles