The best Quotes and Sayings about the Truth

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Max Planck

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

Isaac Newton

Aristotle Plato Philosophy

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

Bryan Bedford in Miracle on 34th Street

Lies

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

Harlan Coben

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."

Nadia Shana in Élite - Season 2 Episode 1

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Kindness

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

William Somerset Maugham

Conspiracy Theories

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

Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park - The Lost World

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

Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild

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

Zoe Collins in White Lines - Season 1 Episode 1

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.

Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5

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.

Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5

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

Flannery O'Connor

Reality

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

Sharon Stone

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

Richard Whately

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

James A. Garfield

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

Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner

Lies

A man does not flee from truth.

Rudolfo Anaya

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

Walter Cronkite

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Frank Herbert

Morality

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Tertullian

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

Ken Kesey

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

Zack Greinke

Lies

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

Hosea Ballou

Doubt

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."

Black Widow in Captain America - The Winter Soldier

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

Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones - Season 8 Episode 3

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

Rory Freedman

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.

Avigdor Lieberman

Lies

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

Elvis Presley

Sun

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

James E. Faust

Lies Honesty

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

Ayn Rand

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.

Xenophanes

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

Victoria Aveyard in Red Queen

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

Roses

The truth can free you, if you let it.

Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

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

Charles Spurgeon

Lies

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

Galileo Galilei

Progress Science

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

Albert Einstein

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Facts

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Facts

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

Buddha

Moon Sun

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Edward Snowden - Interview Glenn Greenwald, 06.06.2013

2013

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

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

The truth is often what we make of it.

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Rebels - Season 3 Episode 20

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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.

Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why - Season 1 Episode 1

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

Isaac Newton

Philosophy

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Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies

Listen to the scientists! Listen to what the facts are!

Joe Biden - May 2020

Coronavirus Facts

If you have no reason to stay, that is exactly the best to go.

umformuliert

Ending Change Honesty

I think sometimes we aren't keeping secrets to hide from other people. I think sometimes we're keeping them to protect those people.

Tony Padilla in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

Secrets Protection

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

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