Truth Quotes

"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."

"That is what makes life: a thread of violence, and all the rest silence."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"Time reveals all truths."

"Honesty is always the best policy."

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

"The pursuit of truth often requires us to abandon comfortable falsehoods."

"There is always a right word to express what we feel."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."

"The eyes are easily deceived; the heart never."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"Truth may be obscured, but like the sun, it cannot be permanently hidden from view."

"The price of truth is often loneliness, for few have the stomach to face it unflinchingly."

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason."

"In the silence between heartbeats lies the truth of our condition."

"The truth, however painful, is always preferable to a comfortable lie."

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

"Names are not always what they seem."

"A lie can travel around the world before the truth gets its boots on."

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

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

"All truths wait in all things."

"I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable."

"The very often lies in that one particular thing which a man has most reason to be ashamed of."

"There's something in a lie that sets the teeth on edge."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things."

"The truth may be stretched thin but it never breaks."

"There is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed."

"Truth is eternal but our understanding of it is not."