Truth Quotes

Truth is simple in theory and messy in practice. These quotes tackle honesty, deception, self-awareness, and the uncomfortable reality that the truths most worth hearing are usually the ones you least want to hear.

“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”

Lord Byron

More Truth Quotes

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”

Horace Mann

“Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.”

Louis Farrakhan

“Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.”

Joseph Conrad

“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”

Harry S. Truman

“Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”

Jawaharlal Nehru

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.”

Gerald R. Ford

“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”

Helen Hayes

“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”

William Cowper

“Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.”

Joyce Meyer

“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.”

Samuel Goldwyn

“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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