Truth Quotes

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

Albert Einstein

"No lie can live forever."

"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."

William Cullen Bryant

"No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented there for payment."

Thomas Carlyle

"Truth is mighty and will prevail."

Thomas Brooks

"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Virginia Woolf

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

Noël Coward

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."

Mary Kay Ash

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always."

Albert Schweitzer

"Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own."

Sir Richard Burton

"Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color."

Frederick Douglass

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

W. Clement Stone

"We must not let our respect for a man take precedence over the truth."

"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."

Alfred Russel Wallace

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

Isaac Asimov

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

Bertrand Russell

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

Kahlil Gibran

"Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words."

Chuang Tzu

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

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."

"Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything."