Quotes about truth are powerful statements that convey the importance and value of being honest and genuine. These quotes highlight the significance of facing reality and speaking the truth, emphasizing its role in building trust and maintaining integrity. They encourage individuals to embrace truthfulness in their actions and words, recognizing that it is a fundamental aspect of personal growth and strong relationships. These quotes inspire us to seek the truth, accept it, and live by it, for truth is the cornerstone of a meaningful and authentic life.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. — Walt Whitman
The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting. — Sanford Meisner
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Telling The Truth Quotes
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — Oscar Wilde
Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves. — Mother Angelica
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord — Guru Gobind Singh
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. — Fannie Lou Hamer
When You Know The Truth Quotes
A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full. — Anselm of Canterbury
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. — H. L. Mencken
I can tell you, there’s nothing worse than not speaking your mind when you know what the truth is. The material benefits of not doing that – are they worth it? Well, that’s for you to weigh up. And it depends on what the material benefits are. — Konstantin Kisin
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding. — Ajahn Chah
Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can give it to another. When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas. — Tae Yun Kim
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth. — Seymour Papert
You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself. — RuPaul
Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school. — David Salle
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face. — William Osler
When Lies Become The Truth Quotes
When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing. — Don King
My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world. — Christiane Amanpour
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive. — Hannah Arendt
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future. — Rick Pitino
When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others. — André Brink
People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit. — Mariel Hemingway
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties. — Marieta Maglas
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth. — Bell Hooks
Hard Truth Quotes
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. — Bill W.
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. — John Stott
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. — Jim Morrison
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. — Gerald Massey
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder. — Tim Ferriss
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality. — Ken Wilber
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard. — Tucker Carlson
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy. — Carl Sagan
Speak Your Truth Quotes
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard. — John Grisham
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. — Henry Ward Beecher
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. — Hermann Hesse
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power. — Chogyam Trungpa
Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do. — Hal Moore
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking. — Naomi Wolf
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. — Wayne Dyer
Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath. — Balian of Ibelin
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior. — Neil T Anderson
Truth And Lies Quotes
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi
The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth. — John F. Kennedy
Who lies for you will lie against you. — John Locke
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority. — Rick Warren
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. — Vincent de Paul
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that. — Edward R. Murrow
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. — Ann Landers
Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself. — Tony Gaskins
Personal Truth Quotes
dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. — Kurt Cobain
Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty. — Ernest Holmes
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. — Ram Dass
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser. — Che Guevara
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. — Ellen DeGeneres
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them. — Greg Laurie
If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop. — Kurt Cobain
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression. — J. Edgar Hoover
Spiritual Truth Quotes
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. — Jaggi Vasudev
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision. — Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have. — Benjamin E. Mays
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens
Truth And Beauty Quotes
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. — Charles R. Swindoll
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation. — Gil Scott-Heron
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. — Shams Tabrizi
The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together. — N. T. Wright
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. — Laurence J. Peter
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness. — David Steindl-Rast
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love. — Desmond Tutu
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Truth And Honesty Quotes
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. — Dalai Lama
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware — Paul Tillich
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach. — David A. Bednar
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. — Bill Murray
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Truth And Justice Quotes
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. — Malcolm X
There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice — Chris Hedges
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. — Cornel West
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. — William Lloyd Garrison
In 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
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last. — Robert E. Lee
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race. — George Washington
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things. — Lucy Stone
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. — Robert H. Jackson
Seeking Truth Quotes
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes. — Smith Wigglesworth
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. — Nikola Tesla
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest. — Tertullian
Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death. — Jan Hus
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. — Walter Cronkite
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth. — Jared Kushner
Making something social destroys the truth of it because social groups need consensus to survive—otherwise they fight and can’t get along—and consensus is all about compromise, not truth-seeking. — Naval Ravikant
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. — Tacitus
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer. — John Wycliffe
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. — Pablo Picasso
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth. — Erich Maria Remarque
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. — Confucius
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky
My longing for truth was a single prayer. — Edith Stein
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. — Buddha
In Conclusion
Truth quotes remind us that honesty and sincerity are essential virtues that should guide our interactions and choices. They encourage us to be truthful not only with others but also with ourselves. These quotes emphasize the power of truth in promoting understanding, resolving conflicts, and fostering genuine connections. They urge us to always seek the truth, even when it may be uncomfortable or challenging, as facing the truth is the first step towards personal and societal growth. These quotes about truth serve as reminders that truthfulness is a vital aspect of our character and a compass that guides us towards a life of integrity and authenticity.
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