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Quotes About Truth

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.
~ Lil Wayne
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~ Giacomo Casanova
What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
~ Lenny Bruce
Truth is one, paths are many.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
~ Herodotus
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.
~ Muhammad
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
~ Arthur Koestler
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
~ Hillary Clinton
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
~ Mark Twain
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
~ Albert Pike
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
~ James E. Faust
Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...
~ Immortal Technique
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .
~ Jean Baudrillard
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
~ Petrarch
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
~ Harriet Martineau
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.
~ Edward Albee
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
~ Jesse Ventura
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
~ Barbra Streisand
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
~ Edward Abbey