The best Quotes and Sayings about the Truth

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Guzmán: "Because she supports me. Unconditionally."
Nadia: "That isn't love, it's devotion, like you would have for a God. People who love you tell you the truth."

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Ian Malcolm: "I told the truth."
Peter Ludlow: "Your version of it."
Ian Malcolm: "There are no versions of the truth."

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth!

I didn't realize how destructive the truth could be.

The truth is always there, whether we see it or not - whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.

When the truth offends me, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

A man does not flee from truth.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Black Widow: "I don't know, the truth is a matter of circumstances. It's not all things to all people all the time, and neither am I."
Captain America: "That's a tough way to live."
Black Widow: "It's a good way not to die though."

It's the most heroic thing we can do now. Look the truth in the face.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

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

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The truth can free you, if you let it.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

You will find that many of the truths we cling to, depend greatly on our own point of view.

The truth is often what we make of it.

It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

The truth isn't always to most exciting version of things, or the best, or the worst. It's somewhere inbetween. But it deserves to be heard and remembered. 'The truth will out', like someone said once. It remains.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

There is only one sin, and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.