Top 200 Truth Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

— Buddha

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2. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

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3. “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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4. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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5. “All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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6. “When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.”

— Carl Sagan

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7. “There is no religion higher than Truth.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

8. “Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.”

— Saint Augustine

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9. “I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”

— Sojourner Truth

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10. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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11. “In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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12. “The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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13. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

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14. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde

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15. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

— Osho

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16. “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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17. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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18. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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19. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

— Oscar Wilde

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20. “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

— Carl Sagan

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21. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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22. “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

— Mark Twain

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23. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

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24. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

— George Orwell

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25. “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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26. “The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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27. “Photography is truth.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

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28. “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”

— Lao Tzu

29. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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30. “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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31. “I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

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32. “If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.”

— Julian Assange

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33. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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34. “In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.”

— Osho

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35. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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36. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

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37. “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

— Rick Warren

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38. “You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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39. “Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.”

— Václav Havel

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40. “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

— James Baldwin

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41. “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

— Carl Sagan

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42. “The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.”

— Alan Watts

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43. “You can fool some people some times, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

— Bob Marley

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44. “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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45. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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46. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

— George Orwell

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47. “The worst crime is faking it.”

— Kurt Cobain

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48. “Walk with those seeking truth. Run from those who think they've found it. ”

— Deepak Chopra

49. “Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

50. “If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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