It's better to tell the truth from the start. Not telling the truth will only worsen a situation in the long run. Whatever you do, you can't prevent the truth from coming out. Those are its bad sides. The good sides are that it helps foster trust and strengthen relationships with others. It also sets you free from the heavy burden of dishonesty and lies. Hiding nothing and having a clean conscience will lead to a happy life. May these quotes about the truth provide you with insights to support your personal growth, boost your self-esteem, and enhance your decision-making.
1. “A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
2. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.” – Elvis Presley
3. “There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.” – Stefan Molyneux
4. “It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.” – Lemony Snicket
5. “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” – Warren Wiersbe
6. “Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
7. “Half a truth is often a great lie.” – Benjamin Franklin
8. “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
9. “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
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10. “Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.” – DaShanne Stokes
11. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12. “Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.” – Claude Adrien Helvétius
13. “Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.” – Aesop
14. “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O'Connor
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15. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” – Edward Abbey
16. “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
17. “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
18. “The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves.” – Thibaut
19. “The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
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20. “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” – Stephanie Klein
21. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson
22. “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.” – Katherine Boo
23. “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.” – Thomas Hardy
24. “Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect truth.” – Suzy Kassem
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25. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei
26. “Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” – Gautama Buddha
27. “The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatly wrapped lies.” – Jodi Picoult
28. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Soren Kierkegaard
29. “Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.” – Thomas Jefferson
30. “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.” – Ally Carter
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31. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Charles Spurgeon
32. “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up looking like a moron instead.” – Robin Hobb
33. “You can’t outrun a lie forever. Eventually, you just end up hurting the people you care about. Sometimes it’s easier to just face the music and accept the fact that you made a mistake.” – Nate Heywood
34. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy
35. “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” – John Steinbeck
36. “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.” – Irvin D. Yalom
37. “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
38. “Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.” – Henry Rollins
39. “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” – W. Clement Stone
40. “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
41. “Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.” – Emily Dickinson
42. “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
43. “People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.” – Andy Rooney
44. “Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” – Thomas Huxley
45. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” – Thomas Mann
46. “By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.” – Peter Abelard
47. “Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” – Rene Descartes
49. “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield
50. “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
51. “We should never retreat before truth simply because we cannot explain it.” – A. W. Tozer
52. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” – Aristotle
53. “Standing courageously for an unpopular opinion isn’t easy, but the rewards of standing courageously for the truth will last forever.” – Rick Warren
54. “The truth is always daunting but always worth knowing.” – Thomas Winning
55. “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” – Khaled Hosseini
56. “Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.” – Benjamin E. Mays
57. “Always tell the truth. Then you don’t have to worry about what you said last.” – Robert Cook
58. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” – Oscar Wilde
59. “Telling a truth is not only a matter of character, but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias.” – M. K. Soni
60. “Do not merely speak the truth, but live truthfully, openly and honesty with one another.” – Sinclair Ferguson
61. “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
62. “If you want to have a healthy mind, you must feed your mind with truth.” – Rick Warren
63. “The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.” – Rebecca West
64. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
65. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident” – Arthur Schopenhauer
66. “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” – Laozi
67. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
68. “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” – Denis Diderot
69. “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” – W. Somerset Maugham
70. “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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2. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.” – Elvis Presley
3. “There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.” – Stefan Molyneux
4. “It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.” – Lemony Snicket
5. “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” – Warren Wiersbe
6. “Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
7. “Half a truth is often a great lie.” – Benjamin Franklin
8. “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
9. “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
11. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12. “Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.” – Claude Adrien Helvétius
13. “Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.” – Aesop
14. “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O'Connor
16. “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
17. “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
18. “The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves.” – Thibaut
19. “The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
21. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson
22. “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.” – Katherine Boo
23. “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.” – Thomas Hardy
24. “Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect truth.” – Suzy Kassem
26. “Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” – Gautama Buddha
27. “The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatly wrapped lies.” – Jodi Picoult
28. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Soren Kierkegaard
29. “Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.” – Thomas Jefferson
30. “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.” – Ally Carter
More Deep Truth Quotes and Its Power
31. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Charles Spurgeon
32. “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up looking like a moron instead.” – Robin Hobb
33. “You can’t outrun a lie forever. Eventually, you just end up hurting the people you care about. Sometimes it’s easier to just face the music and accept the fact that you made a mistake.” – Nate Heywood
34. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy
35. “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” – John Steinbeck
36. “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.” – Irvin D. Yalom
37. “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
38. “Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.” – Henry Rollins
39. “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” – W. Clement Stone
40. “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
41. “Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.” – Emily Dickinson
42. “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
43. “People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.” – Andy Rooney
44. “Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” – Thomas Huxley
45. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” – Thomas Mann
46. “By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.” – Peter Abelard
47. “Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” – Rene Descartes
49. “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield
50. “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
51. “We should never retreat before truth simply because we cannot explain it.” – A. W. Tozer
52. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” – Aristotle
53. “Standing courageously for an unpopular opinion isn’t easy, but the rewards of standing courageously for the truth will last forever.” – Rick Warren
54. “The truth is always daunting but always worth knowing.” – Thomas Winning
55. “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” – Khaled Hosseini
56. “Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.” – Benjamin E. Mays
57. “Always tell the truth. Then you don’t have to worry about what you said last.” – Robert Cook
58. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” – Oscar Wilde
59. “Telling a truth is not only a matter of character, but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias.” – M. K. Soni
60. “Do not merely speak the truth, but live truthfully, openly and honesty with one another.” – Sinclair Ferguson
61. “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
62. “If you want to have a healthy mind, you must feed your mind with truth.” – Rick Warren
63. “The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.” – Rebecca West
64. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
65. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident” – Arthur Schopenhauer
66. “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” – Laozi
67. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
68. “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” – Denis Diderot
69. “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” – W. Somerset Maugham
70. “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Share these Quotes for Truthfulness with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.