Truth Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

144 Truth Quotes
“Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: L'Art Poetique (I, 198)
“At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: L'Art Poetique (III, 48)
“Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.”
Horatius Bonar, D.D. Quotes
Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813)
“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
Horatius Bonar, D.D. Quotes
Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope (p. 113), (ed. 1813)
“Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]”
Thomas Brooks Quotes
Source: he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)
“He said true things, but called them by wrong names.”
Thomas Brooks Quotes
Source: he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662)
“If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]”
Giordano Bruno Quotes
Source: Degli Eroici Furori
“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.”
Bear Bryant Quotes
Source: The Battle Field (st. 9)
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Caxtoniana (essay XIV)
“Arm thyself for the truth!”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Lady of Lyons (act V, sc. 1)
“For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 257)
“'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Sherlock Holmes Quotes
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
Lillian Hellman Quotes
“It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
Jerome K Jerome Quotes
“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Dr Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull Quotes
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Samuel Butler Quotes
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr Quotes
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Lenin Quotes
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Quotes