84 Inspirational Quotes About Truth That Will Empower Your Soul

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

- George Orwell

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

- William Faulkner

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

- Martin Luther

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

- Henry David Thoreau

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

- C. S. Lewis

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

- Buddha

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

- Virginia Woolf

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

- Flannery O'Connor

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

- William Shakespeare

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."

- James A. Garfield

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

- Thomas Mann

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

- Mark Twain

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."

- Anne Lamott

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

- Elvis Presley

"Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away."

- Ismail Haniyeh

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."

- Iris Murdoch

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

- General Norman Schwarzkopf

"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."

- Emile Zola

"Half a truth is often a great lie."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Winston S. Churchill

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."

- George Washington

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

- Emily Dickinson

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

- William Blake

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

- Oscar Wilde

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

- Denis Diderot

"By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth."

- Peter Abelard

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

- Mark Twain

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Winston Churchill

"The words of truth are always paradoxical."

- Lao Tzu

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."

- Andy Rooney

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

- Galileo Galilei

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."

- H. L. Mencken

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

- Coco Chanel

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

- Gloria Steinem

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."

- Steve Maraboli

"The object of the superior man is truth."

- Confucius

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."

- Swami Vivekananda

"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

- J.K. Rowling

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

- Walt Whitman

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."

- John Calvin

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."

- S.E. Hinton

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."

- Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

"Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion."

- David Icke

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."

- Niels Bohr

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

- George Orwell

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

- Mark Twain

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

- Bruce Lee

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."

- Adolf Loos

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

- Oscar Wilde

"I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it."

- Herodotus

"The first reaction to truth is hatred."

- Tertullian

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."

- Henry Rollins

"Facts are stubborn things."

- Ronald Reagan

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."

- Mark Twain

"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."

- Bob Dylan

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

- Jesus Christ

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

- David Bowie

"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."

- Suzanne Collins

"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."

- Frank A. Clark

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

- John Lennon

"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."

- Arthur Miller

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

- George Carlin

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

- Unknown

"Adversity is the first path to truth."