Truth Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

144 Truth Quotes
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes
“The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes
“If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“One man with courage makes a majority.”
Andrew Jackson Quotes
“Women should be obscene and not heard.”
Groucho Marx Quotes
“The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”
Travis Walton Quotes
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world”
Max Born Quotes
“Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
Source: Concord Days--June--Goethe
“The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]”
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus) Quotes
Source: Annales (XIV, 10)
“Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]”
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus) Quotes
Source: Annales (XXVI)
“But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Essays--Of Truth
“How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.”
James Beattie Quotes
Source: The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 53)
“To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Wit at Several Weapons (act II)
“But above all things truth is victor.”
Bible Quotes
Source: inscription on the New York Public Library, I Esdras (ch. III, v. 12)
“Great is truth, and strongest of all.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Esdras (ch. IV, v. 41)
“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Bible Quotes
Source: John (ch. VIII, v. 32)
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Bible Quotes
Source: John (ch. VIII, v. 44)
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
Bible Quotes
Source: John (ch. VIII, v. 44)
“God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!”
William Blake Quotes
Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
William Blake Quotes
Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"