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Quotes About Truth

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
~ Yanni
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
~ Guru Nanak
Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
~ Claud Cockburn
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
~ Ken Loach
We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.
~ John Owen
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
~ A. H. Almaas
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.
~ Elissa Schappell
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, 1984
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Truth is a great flirt.
~ Franz Liszt
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
~ Max Weber
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
~ Henning Mankell
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.
~ Sally Mann
I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang, I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.
~ Mac Dre
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
~ Jonathan Swift
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
~ Vaclav Havel
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
~ Hallie Ephron
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
~ Vernon Howard
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
~ David Mitchell
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
~ Mahlon Hoagland