Truth Quotes
Quotes about truth, honesty and seeing things as they are. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest truth quotes ever written — from Leo Tolstoy, Voltaire, Maya Angelou and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
There is a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it made enlargements too.
Justice is truth in action.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when a man is afraid of the light.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Murder will out.
History is written by the victors — read it with open eyes.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
Three things can not hide for long: the moon, the sun, and the choices we regret.
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
A riddle is like a small axe with which to split a large log of truth.
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion only the surface.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.