Top 200 Truth Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

— Saint Augustine

102. “There’s no God higher than truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

103. “To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”

— Lao Tzu

104. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

105. “Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.”

— Ramana Maharshi

106. “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”

— Jack Welch

107. “There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Michael Jackson

109. “The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

110. “My religion is not deceiving myself.”

— Milarepa

111. “Opinions don’t affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you’re rational.”

— Ricky Gervais

112. “Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.”

— Ellen G. White

113. “Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.”

— Rumi

114. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

115. “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

116. “I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

117. “Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.”

— Ayn Rand

118. “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

119. “Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

120. “Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”

— Ramana Maharshi

121. “Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”

— Richard P. Feynman

122. “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

123. “To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Bertrand Russell

124. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

125. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Albert Einstein

127. “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

128. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

— Frederick Douglass

129. “When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”

— Ayn Rand

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

— Vernon Howard

131. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

— C. S. Lewis

132. “Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”

— Václav Havel

133. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

— C. S. Lewis

134. “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

— Blaise Pascal

135. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

136. “Observe your own life, and you will know the Truth.”

— Acharya Prashant

137. “Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.”

— Socrates

138. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

— Aldous Huxley

139. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

140. “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Ronald Coase

143. “One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.”

— Socrates

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

— Rumi

145. “Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.”

— Ramana Maharshi

146. “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

— George Orwell

147. “Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.”

— Kabir

148. “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

149. “No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”

— David Goggins

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt