Truth Quotes

"Truth loves its limits, for there it meets the beautiful."

"Look, the world has gone mad: if I speak the truth, they rush to beat me; the false they readily believe."

Kabir

"Not every light is a lamp; for the wise, the lamp of truth alone is the true lamp."

Thiruvalluvar

"Do not speak what your own heart knows to be false; your conscience will burn you for it."

Thiruvalluvar

"Truthfulness alone is the spiritual discipline of this age."

Sri Ramakrishna

"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."

"Truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."

Émile Zola

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."

George Eliot

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

Jane Austen

"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."

Herman Melville

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers."

James Baldwin

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."

Tim O'Brien

"Always tell the truth – it's the easiest thing to remember."

David Mamet

"By a lie, a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man."

Immanuel Kant

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

René Descartes

"He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false."

Baruch Spinoza

"Truth always rests with the minority."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events."

William James

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

John Stuart Mill

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."

Simone de Beauvoir

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

J. Krishnamurti

"Truth never perishes."

Seneca