Truth Quotes

"Anyone who says they always tell the truth is lying."

"The fact that so many people share these criticisms suggests to me that they have validity."

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

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

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"The proposition is a picture of reality."

"It is impossible to say something and hold it to be false."

"Propositions can only say what is the case, nothing more."

"The world is all that is the case."

"The good is beyond all propositions."

"The picture is applied to reality like a measure."

"One cannot say of anything that it is and is not in the same respect and at the same time."

"To say that a proposition is true is the same as to assert the proposition."

"The truth cannot be said but only shown."

"When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and evil appear."

"The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao."

"Truth has no defenders; it simply is."

"The naked truth is better than the best-dressed lie."

"If you have a secret, my lips are sealed. But you better hurry up and tell someone else first."

"The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves."

"We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."

"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own breath."

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

"Men are so accustomed to a false life that truth appears to them as a paradox."

"The streets don't lie. They tell you everything you need to know if you're willing to listen."

"The trouble with most people is they think with their hopes or fears or convictions or vanities, but not with their minds."

"Honesty is a good policy, but it's a rotten sales technique."

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

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."