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This is a list of quotes about truth
A lie
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
All religionsAll the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
An honest manAn honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offense; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
BodyguardIn wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
CatchwordsAll significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
ConvictionsConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Describing the truthIf you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Even if it is dreadfulThere's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
John Steinbeck
Give him a maskMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Great is truthGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
Half-truthA lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I knowI know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Ernest Hemingway
I'm freeI know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
In a controversyIn a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
In idleness, in dreamsIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
IncontrovertibleThe truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
It is rarely pureThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
It is self-evidentTruth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is the truthEven if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Judge of Truth and KnowledgeWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Like all dreamersLike all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Looking ridiculousIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley
Matters of truth and justiceIn matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
Mental fightMental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf
My way of jokingMy way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali
NeverTruth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
No one can lieNo one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
Paulo Coelho
Not the truthEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
Self-deception and ignoranceIf someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Marcus Aurelius
Speak the truthSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
Speaking the truthNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Stumbling over the truthMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Succession of errorsMan approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley
Telling the truthIf you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
The daughter of TimeThere is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln
The oppressedTruth is on the side of the oppressed
Malcolm X
The simple truthThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens
The superiorThe object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
They do not cease to existFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Three thingsThree things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
Time of deceitIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Troubled by the truth?Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
Thucydides
TruthI'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Malcolm X
TruthAnyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
Truth and beautyThe pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Truth and beautyThe truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
Truth is in thingsTruth is in things, and not in words.
Herman Melville
Truth is mightyTruth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Mark Twain
Truth isn'tFiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Truth standsTruth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
Underlying truthBut now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
What is a lie?And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope
When in doubtWhen in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
You cannot tell it!If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
