Inspirational truth quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Powerful Collection of Most Famous Truth Quotes
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. – Rabindranath Tagore
All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self- content. – Unknown
Liars need good memories. – French Proverb
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true. – Richard Bach
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson
No sin is hidden to the soul. – Bengali
Play the part and you shall become. – Unknown
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. – Michelle Obama
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann
The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle. – Adrienne C. Moore
Practice what you preach. – Unknown
Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat. – Irish Proverb
No legacy is so rich as honesty. – William Shakespeare
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. – Mark Twain
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. – Albert Einstein
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. – Ben Franklin
Take it straight from the horse’s mouth. – Francis Iles
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. – Alice Cary
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. – Malcolm X
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe. – Voltaire
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch
What you would seem to be, be really. – Ben Franklin
You can’t make bricks without straw. – Unknown
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton
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. – Don Miguel Ruiz
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. – W. Clement Stone
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. – Mark Twain
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. – Charles Caleb Colton
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. – Robert Green Ingersoll
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. – Ayn Rand
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. – Stephanie Klein
Pretending to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are. – Kurt Cobain
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source. – Debbie Ford
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
Everyone sees who I appear to be but only a few know the real me. You only see what i choose to show. There’s so much behind my smile you just don’t know. – Unknown
I’d rather be hated for who I am, rather than loved for who I am not. – Kurt Cobain
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. – Mahatma Gandhi
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. – Albert Einstein
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. – Joe Abercrombie
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. – J. Michael Straczynski
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. – Benjamin E. Mays
Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. – Swami Vivekananda
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. – Sigmund Freud
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. – Wayne W. Dyer
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. – Henry David Thoreau
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct — unity of purpose. – Malcolm X
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. – Brene Brown
You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, but you will love me later because I told you the truth. – Mary J. Blige
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. – Ann Landers
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. – P.D. Ouspensky
Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. – Shoseki
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. – John F. Kennedy
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. – Claude Adrien Helvetius
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
Always tell the truth — it’s the easiest thing to remember. – David Mamet
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Henry David Thoreau
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. – John Calvin
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. – Michael Jackson
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. – Henry David Thoreau
Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. – Sir Winston Churchill
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. – William Cowper
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed, all things rest upon truth. – Chanakya
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. – Ismail Haniyeh
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. – George Washington
Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It’s the healthiest way to be. – Tiffany Haddish
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. – Sylvester Stallone
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. – Andy Rooney
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. – Elizabeth Bowen
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. – Albert Einstein
On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. – Epictetus
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. – Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. – Flannery O’Connor
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. – George Washington
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. – George R.R. Martin
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. – Horace Mann
Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him. – Pope John XXIII
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost. – Václav Havel
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. – Napoleon Hill
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide – Ice Cube
I 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
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. – Hypatia
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries. – John Stuart Mill
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. – Lao Tzu
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up. – George R.R. Martin
The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped liesJodi Picoult
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. – Dorothy Allison
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. – Mark Twain
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. – Liu Xiaobo
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. – Albert Einstein
