Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. – Aesop
The truth is the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality. As the King James Bible says “And You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free”. As UK former prime minister Winston Churchill once quipped “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Here are some great quotes on the truth:
- The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill
- 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
- The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: – Gloria Steinem
- Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley
- Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha
- If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
- 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
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei
- Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. – W. Clement Stone
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. – Thomas Mann
- We go wrong when we don’t admit the unknowable complexity of reality, but we go dangerously wrong when we claim that one pale story—or an anthology of them—is truth. – Dean koontz
- In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
- Many of us live in two worlds when it comes to relationships. In one we have connection without truth; in the other we have truth without connection. – Henry Cloud, John Townsend; How to Have That Difficult Conversation
- The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies. – Thomas Jefferson
- Telling a truth is not only a matter of character, but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias. – M. K. Soni
- Standing courageously for an unpopular opinion isn’t easy, but the rewards of standing courageously for the truth will last forever. – Rick Warren
- There is one truth that must be sought after first before you can go further and that truth is that you must take charge of your own life for you cannot lead a life of truth if you let someone else take responsibility for your thoughts or actions. – Byron Pulsifer
- 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
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius
- The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. – Ann Landers
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.- Spencer Johnson
- Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. – Albert Einstein
- Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. – Warren W. Wiersbe
- Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. – Mahatma Gandhi
- It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau
- Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius
- 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
- Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. – Aesop
- There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou
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