Truth Quotes

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow."

"Man can desire nothing better than truth, nor fear anything worse than falsehood."

"The truth always finds a way out."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

"I am not an angel and I will not pretend to be."

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter—in the eye."

"Uprightness is an excellent foundation for the finest building."

"Misery generates hate."

"I must have a reason for all my actions."

"The pen is mightier in truth than in falsehood."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

"The way to know the truth is to look at reality and not at books."

"I am not arguing with you—I am telling you."

"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be."

"I prefer honest cruelty to false kindness."

"Truth may be painful, but lies poison the soul."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Certainty is not given to us on earth."

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

"The devil can quote scripture for his own ends."

"Truth is like a torch, and those who bear it are not free."

"May not the complaint, that common people are liars, apply to ourselves"

"We are not merely making up these facts; they are crushingly real"

"Truth spoken with compassion becomes wisdom"

"I would not change the nature of my thoughts or feelings for all the gold in the world."

"If you shut up truth and bury it underground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow your whole structure skywards."

"The truth will always emerge, no matter how deeply buried."

"One cannot help but be amazed at the depth of human depravity."