Top 40 Truth Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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3. “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”

— Michael Jackson

4. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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5. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

— René Descartes

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6. “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

— Albert Einstein

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7. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

— Vernon Howard

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8. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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9. “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”

— Ronald Coase

10. “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.”

— Rumi

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11. “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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12. “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

— Mark Twain

13. “Truth is more in the process than in the result.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

14. “Lying is done with words and also with silence.”

— Adrienne Rich

15. “Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.”

— Leo Tolstoy

16. “Truth exists; only lies are invented.”

— Georges Braque

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17. “You can’t cheat an honest man.”

— W. C. Fields

18. “The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.”

— C.G. Jung

19. “When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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20. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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21. “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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22. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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23. “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

— Thomas Paine

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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25. “All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”

— Bob Dylan

26. “The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

— Ram Dass

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27. “The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”

— Antisthenes

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28. “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”

— Dan Brown

29. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”

— Isaac Newton

30. “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

— C.G. Jung

31. “On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

32. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

— Aldous Huxley

33. “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

— Isaac Asimov

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34. “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

— Kurt Cobain

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35. “Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.”

— Isaac Asimov

36. “Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

— Rumi

37. “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

— Robert W. Service

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38. “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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39. “Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”

— Douglas Adams

40. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

— Oscar Wilde

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