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.

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

Khalil Gibran

More 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

“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

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