38 Best Inspirational Quotes About Truth

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Get here the list of some best inspirational quotes about the truth that will motivate you to live an honest and truthful life.

Truth Quotes About Life

1. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain

2. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ― Oscar Wilde

3. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ― Mark Twain

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4. “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” ― Mark Twain

5. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ― Joe Klaas

6. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley

7. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell

8. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

9. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates

10. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” ― Oscar Wilde

11. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” ― Mark Twain

12. “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” ― Flannery O’Connor

13. “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

Telling The Truth Quotes

14. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ― Pablo Picasso

15. “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” ― Stephanie Klein

16. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” ― Ernest Hemingway

17. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” ― Virginia Woolf

18. “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw

19. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius

20. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” ― Edward Abbey

21. “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” ― David Foster Wallace

22. “The only truth is music.” ― Jack Kerouac

23. “That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.” ― Tim O’Brien

24. “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” ― Lao Tzu

25. “The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” ― Nadine Gordimer

26. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

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27. “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

28. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

29. “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” ― Wallace Stevens

30. “There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.” ― Maya Angelou

31. “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” ― Jessamyn West

32. “Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” ― Gautama Buddha

33. “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.” ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

34. “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” ― Andre Gide

35. “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli

36. “The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies” ― Jodi Picoult

37. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy

38. “Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.” ― Albert Camus