truth quotes

Buddha once said that the three things that cannot be hidden are 'the sun, the moon, and the truth'. We will hide nothing here and show you our complete, truly shining collection of quotes about truth. You can read them below.

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

— Albert Einstein

“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.”

— Bill Gates

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Martin Luther King

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

— Mark Twain

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ”

— Winston Churchill

“No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

— Plato

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”

— Albert Einstein

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. ”

— Aristotle

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

— Aristotle

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

— Aristotle

“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”

— Aristotle

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”

— Mark Twain

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”

— Mark Twain

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

— Mark Twain

“When in doubt tell the truth.”

— Mark Twain

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.”

— Corliss Lamont

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

— Pablo Picasso

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”

— Confucius

“The object of the superior man is truth.”

— Confucius

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ”

— Winston Churchill

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson