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TRUTH QUOTES

Sometimes, the truth can be frightening! However, these quotes from the truth about the importance of it can make it easier to take in.

From the time we were children we're instructed to always be honest, and this is a good thing. However, truth can be a bit complicated and messy, and the rules to speak the truth do not necessarily reflect how difficult to do so. Truth is an essential component of building strong relationships and loyalty and these wise words can make you feel happy just like any positive quote. 

These truth quotes from famous names such as world leaders, self-help experts and others encourage integrity and the search for the truth, but some recognize that the truth that is unfiltered can be a bad thing too. Being honest with yourself is a vital aspect of truth. You should be reading these self-love quotes as well. Check out these quotes on change as changing is an essential part of life!


Too many prefer gentle lies to hard truths.

  •  Too many prefer gentle lies to hard truths. 
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

  • The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Truth hurts but what hurts makes you stronger.

  • Truth hurts but what hurts makes you stronger. 
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

  • Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered

  • Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

  • Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort. 
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

  • Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. 
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

  • One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies. 
The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves.

  • The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves. 
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

  • The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. 
You can have ignorance or you can have self-knowledge. You can live deluded or you can live for truth.

  • You can have ignorance or you can have self-knowledge. You can live deluded or you can live for truth. 
I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take.

  • I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. 
A man is beginning to learn the Truth about life when he is no longer surprised by anything.

  • A man is beginning to learn the Truth about life when he is no longer surprised by anything.
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

  • In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. 
Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

  • Only silence communicates the truth as it is. 
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

  • The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you’re running from the truth.

  • The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you’re running from the truth. 
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt.

  • In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. 
The only way to tell the truth is to speak it with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

  • The only way to tell the truth is to speak it with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. 
If you’re seeking the truth then what you don’t know is more important than you know.

  • If you’re seeking the truth then what you don’t know is more important than you know.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

  • I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
I was too enamored of truth ever to mourn lost illusions.

  • I was too enamored of truth ever to mourn lost illusions.
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

  • If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. 
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

  • The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

  • The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. 
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie to make someone laugh.

  • Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie to make someone laugh. 
I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.

  • I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older. 
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you

  • The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. 
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

  • The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant. 
There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value

  • There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value. 
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

  • Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

  • If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it. 
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

  • The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Truth: something hard to say and hard to hide.

  • Truth: something hard to say and hard to hide. 
Truth is the best disinfectant.

  • Truth is the best disinfectant.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

  • If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
That’s the most heroic thing we can do now: look the truth in the face.

  • That’s the most heroic thing we can do now: look the truth in the face. 
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. 
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

  • Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

  • The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. 
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  • Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. 
I just tell the truth, and telling the truth is crazy in a world full of lies.

  • I just tell the truth, and telling the truth is crazy in a world full of lies. 
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

  • I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. 
There are no truths, only moments of clarity passing for answers.

  • There are no truths, only moments of clarity passing for answers. 
In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

  • In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. 
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

  • What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

  • First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. 
You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

  • You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. 
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.

  • We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. 
Plato is my friend – Aristotle is my friend – but my greatest friend is truth.

  • Plato is my friend – Aristotle is my friend – but my greatest friend is truth. 
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.

  • I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.

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