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Quotes About Truth

There is nothing as unreal as life.
~ Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
~ Jodi Picoult
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
~ Albert Camus
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
~ Seneca the Younger
I have a great life, to tell you the truth.
~ Shirley MacLaine
A lie never lives to be old.
~ Sophocles
Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth
~ Sri Chinmoy
Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.
~ Neil Gaiman
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
~ Richard Bach
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A confession has to be part of your new life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
~ Mark Twain
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
~ William Butler Yeats
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
~ Meher Baba
If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.
~ Muriel Barbery
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
~ Pierre Trudeau
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
~ Alan Cohen
If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.
~ Alfred Delp
I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
~ Angelina Jolie
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer