Truth - Quotes

We all seek to know the truth about everything around us except ourselves; because it hurts to know about one’s own limitations and to admit them. - Unknown

We cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it. - Raven

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever. - Marcel Proust

We shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but very few things that are both true and new. - Charles Caleb Colton

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot

What people believe prevails over the truth. - Sophocles

What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. - Robert M. Pirsig

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. - Anais Nin

When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice. - Benjamin Whichcote

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When you open your mind to the impossible, sometimes you find the truth. - Dr. Walter Bishop

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. - Bill Copeland

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. - Aristotle

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. - George Harrison

You can’t change the truth, but the truth can change you. - Unknown

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts. - Austin O’Malley

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. - Anne Lamott

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth. - Horace Mann