Truth Quotes

“Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.”

— William James

“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”

— George Eliot

“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”

— Voltaire

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

— Joseph Addison

“Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”

— Andy Rooney

“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”

— H. L. Mencken

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

— Francis Bacon

“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

— Herman Melville

“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

— Samuel Butler

“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.”

— Joe Biden