Truth Quotes

"The pursuit of truth requires abandoning pretense."

"The deepest truths are often the simplest."

"Words are the only absolutes we can trust."

"Authenticity in art requires absolute honesty with oneself."

"To write authentically is to write from the soul's deepest knowing."

"To be true to one's vision requires absolute integrity."

"Truth wears many faces; we must learn to recognize them all."

"I prefer the honest struggle to the comfortable lie."

"I prefer the truth that wounds to the lie that comforts."

"We must embrace contradiction as part of truth."

"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility."

"Character is what God and the angels know of us."

"Facts are stubborn things."

"Truth is the light that guides us."

"Truth will always prevail."

"I wish I could drink like other people do, but the sun goes down and up with me otherwise."

"Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand."

"I died for beauty, but was scarce adjusted in the tomb when one who died for truth was lain in an adjoining room."

"I shall not rest until I have written the truth that burns in my heart."

"We must be as clear as our native water."

"I too dislike it—there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle."

"Truth emerges in the spaces between words."

"Truth wears many faces; we mistake our perception of one for the whole."

"Truth is the foundation of all virtue."

"We live in descriptions of places, not in the places themselves."

"The pressure of reality is the pressure we place upon ourselves through expectation."

"The most important thing is to be true to yourself and your vision."

"We are not really moved by the facts of the world about us."

"The social contract is based on truth."

"Truth is the foundation of freedom."