Top 998 Truth Quotes & Sayings

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don't really wear a lot of colours. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

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.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.