Top 200 Truth Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

— Richard P. Feynman

152. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone

153. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”

— C.G. Jung

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

155. “The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.”

— Aldous Huxley

156. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Adrienne Rich

158. “Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

159. “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

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

— Georges Braque

161. “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”

— Francis Bacon

162. “You can’t cheat an honest man.”

— W. C. Fields

163. “No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

165. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

167. “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

— Socrates

168. “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

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

— Thomas Paine

170. “True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.”

— A.W. Tozer

171. “Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

172. “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.

173. “True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

175. “There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”

— John Heywood

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

— Antisthenes

177. “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

— Sophocles

178. “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

179. “Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.”

— Edward Snowden

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Isaac Newton

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

— C.G. Jung

184. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

— Galileo Galilei

185. “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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

188. “Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Kurt Cobain

191. “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

192. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

193. “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

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

— Robert W. Service

195. “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

196. “Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

197. “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

198. “Tell the truth and make it rhyme.”

— John Lennon

199. “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

200. “Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.”

— Frank Zappa