Top 200 Truth Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

52. “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”

— Carl Sagan

53. “You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.”

— Simon Sinek

54. “The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

55. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

— John Keats

56. “Be true to yourself and everything will be fine.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

57. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

— Anne Lamott

58. “The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

59. “You are already that which you seek.”

— Ramana Maharshi

60. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

— Philip K. Dick

61. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

— Aristotle

62. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

— William Shakespeare

63. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

64. “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

— Malcolm X

65. “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

— Isaac Newton

66. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

67. “I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth.”

— Deepak Chopra

68. “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

69. “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

— Ron Paul

70. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.”

— Elvis Presley

71. “The gift of truth excels all other gifts.”

— Buddha

72. “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

73. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

— C. S. Lewis

74. “Accuracy builds credibility.”

— Jim Rohn

75. “One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

76. “If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”

— Rajneesh

77. “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

— George Orwell

78. “The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

79. “Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which it soars to the truth.”

— Pope John Paul II

80. “That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.”

— Tim O'Brien

81. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Marcus Aurelius

83. “Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

84. “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”

— St. Vincent de Paul

85. “Truth is not afraid of questions.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

86. “The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.”

— Chuck Missler

87. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

— John F. Kennedy

88. “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

89. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

— Helen Schucman

90. “Truth is a pathless land.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

91. “If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius

92. “Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”

— Carl Sagan

93. “Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

94. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

95. “Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.”

— Christopher Hitchens

96. “I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

97. “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”

— Terry Pratchett

98. “Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

99. “The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.”

— Ramana Maharshi

100. “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

— Khalil Gibran