Quotes About Truth

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
-- Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-- Albert Einstein

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
-- Arthur Miller

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Official truths are often powerful illusions.
-- John Pilger

A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots.
-- Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
-- Maya Angelou

In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-- Voltaire

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
-- Pearl S. Buck

The liar's punishment is that they cannot believe anyone else.
-- George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
-- Charles Dickens

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
-- Alexander Pope

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
-- Hamlet

Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it gives you such an advantage over the man who is trying to remember his lies!
-- Sam Brookes

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are three parts in truth: first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it.
-- Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
-- Francis Bacon

Honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.
-- Thomas Jefferson

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. One way or another this individual is trying to control you. That is the mechanism of control. Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you. Not is going to, but is lying to you. Check these facts, you will find they are always true. That person who is trying to control you is lying to you. He's got to tell you lies in order to continue control, because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher and tougher to control. So, you can't control somebody without telling them a bunch of lies.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except to dare to think and to dare to go with the truth and to dare to really love completely.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller