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Quotes About Truth

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".
~ Charlie Chaplin
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.
~ Grace Slick
The truth is always an abyss.
~ Franz Kafka
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
~ Bodhidharma
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
~ Aleister Crowley
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
~ Anaxagoras
Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.
~ John Denver
You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.
~ Michael Chekhov
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
~ Gautama Buddha
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
~ Thomas Paine
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
~ Bobby Darin
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
~ Lou Holtz
As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
~ Umar
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
~ Willa Cather
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
~ Richard Wagner
Photography is the truth if it's being handled by a truthful person.
~ Don McCullin
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
~ Rich Mullins
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.
~ Edward Snowden
There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.
~ Rumi
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.
~ Sanford Meisner
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
~ Baltasar Gracian
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
~ Tariq Ramadan