Truth Quotes

I told my wife the truth.

I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist.

Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist,

two plumbers, and a bartender.

We hold these truths to be self

evident,

that all men are created equal...

— The Declaration of Independence (1776)

No religion has mandated killing others

as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Lie to anyone

but never

lie to yourself

Truth is like the sun.

You can shut it out

for a time, but it

ain't goin' away.

A liar begins with making

falsehood appear like truth,

and ends with making truth

itself appear like falsehood.

Who never doubted,

never half believed.

Where doubt is,

there truth is

it is her shadow.

All things are subject to

interpretation whichever

interpretation prevails

at a given time is

a function of power

and not truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction

fiction, but it is because

Fiction is obliged to

stick to possibilities;

Truth isn't

Three things cannot

be long hidden:

the sun,

the moon,

and the truth.

The object of oratory

alone in not truth,

but persuasion.

Be truthful,

nature only

sides with truth.

Whoever is careless with

the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with

important matters.

Metaphors have a way of

holding the most truth

in the least space.

I am the Way,

the Truth,

and the Life.

No one comes to

the Father except

through me.

Truth is the ultimate

power. When the truth

comes around, all the

lies have to run and hide.

People like to say that

the conflict is between

good and evil.

The real conflict is

between truth and lies.

There are only two mistakes

one can make along the road

to truth; not going all

the way, and not starting.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective Election and power are.