Truth Quotes

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. (Seneca)
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. View quote
Sophocles
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. View quote
Plato
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. View quote
Mark Twain
Truth is such a precious article let us all economize in its use. View quote
Mark Twain
Truth is the daughter of Time. View quote
Aulus Gellius
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
When in doubt tell the truth. View quote
Mark Twain
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. View quote
Aristotle
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. (Menander)
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Piety required us to honour truth above our friends. View quote
Aristotle
Archery teaches us how to seek the truth. When the shooter misses, he does not blame others, but looks for the fault in himself. View quote
Confucius
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. View quote
Lily Tomlin
In war, truth is the first casualty. View quote
Aeschylus
The language of truth is simple. View quote
Seneca
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. View quote
Thucydides
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. (Virginia Woolf)
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. View quote
Winston Churchill
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. View quote
George Orwell
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. View quote
Joseph Joubert
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. View quote
Isaac Newton