Sayings about Truth
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~ Slovenian Proverb
To tell the truth is dangerous; to listen to it is boring. ~ Danish Proverb
If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at — too late and you are stoned. ~ Iranian Proverb
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. ~ Russian Proverb
He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup. ~ Turkish Proverb
The truth is a heavy burden that few care to carry. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood. ~ Danish Proverb
Truth fears nothing but concealment. ~ Traditional Proverb
Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash. ~ Yoruba Proverb
If you add to the truth, you take something away from it. ~ Hebrew Proverb
There are only two ways to reach the truth — with literature and agriculture. ~ Chinese Proverb
Simplicity is the seal of truth. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who loves the truth has many enemies. ~ Tamil Proverb
Never does a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to someone who doesn’t believe her. ~ Chinese Proverb
Bury truth in a golden coffin, it will break it open. ~ Russian Proverb
Not to mention the truth is hiding gold. ~ Greek Proverb
Truth lies at the bottom of a well. ~ Greek Proverb
Nothing tastes more bitter than the truth. ~ Yiddish Proverb
There are such things as false truths and honest lies. ~ Gypsy Proverb
Sooner or later the truth comes to light. ~ Dutch Proverb
When one has one’s hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. ~ French Proverb
He who is a slave of truth is a free man.~ Arabian Proverb
If you wish to learn the highest truth, begin with the alphabet. ~ Japanese Proverb
Truth is twelve years old. ~ Goan Proverb
The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace.~ Hebrew Proverb
Truth is lost with too much debating. ~ Dutch Proverb
Children and drunks always speak the truth. ~ Traditional Proverb
It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees. ~ Arabian Proverb
Truth is for the ears what smoke is for the eyes and vinegar for the tongue. ~ German Proverb
It is the truth that irritates a person. ~ Spanish Proverb
Truth fears no trial. ~ Traditional Proverb
Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best. ~ Polish Proverb
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. ~ Greek Proverbs
Never show the truth naked — just in its shirt. ~ Spanish Proverb
Truth is always homeless.~ Danish Proverb
Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds. ~ Czech Proverb
The word of a powerful man is the truth. ~ Bambara Proverb
He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors. ~ Danish Proverb
Truth seldom finds a home.~ Belgian Proverb
If you want to hear the truth about yourself — offend your neighbor. ~ Czech Proverb
Truth is the daughter of time. ~ Traditional Proverb
You recognize the truth by its own sound. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Truth and oil always come to the surface. ~ Spanish Proverb
Truthful words are seldom pleasant. ~ Japanese Proverb
Truth should not be dressed up. ~ Portuguese Proverb
The truth is like gold: keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away. ~ Senegalese Proverb
You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people. ~ Croatian Proverb
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood. ~ Danish Proverb
No woman ever speaks the naked truth. ~ Italian Proverbs
Tell God the truth, but give money to the judge. ~ Russian Proverb
Truth has but one color, a lie has many. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
Truth will take you everywhere — even to jail. ~ Polish Proverb
Truth has no branches. ~ Indian Proverb
Truth will out. ~ Traditional Proverb
The truth is half a quarrel. ~ Indian Proverbs
The wise man says “I am looking for truth“; and the fool, “I have found truth.” ~ Russian Proverb
A truth that comes too early or too late is just like a lie. ~ German Proverb
One bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth. ~ Danish Proverbs
Truth is the safest lie. ~ Traditional Proverb
Half-truth — whole lie. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Truth is stranger than fiction. ~ Traditional Proverb
Truth does not need many words. ~ Russian Proverb
Tell the truth and run! ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Whoever has walked with truth generates life. ~ Sumerian Proverb
Only the truth hurts.~ French Proverb
There are many lies but barely one truth. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
Truth will not make you fat but you won’t choke on a lie. ~ Polish Proverbs
He who dies for the truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave. ~ German Proverbs
The coat of truth is often lined with lies. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.~ Arabian Proverb
You can proclaim the truth also in a friendly way. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Truth may walk through the world unarmed. ~ Bedouin Proverb
Over truth there is light. ~ Moroccan Proverbs
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions. ~ Zen Proverb
Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie. ~ Russian Proverbs
Time tries truth. ~ Traditional Proverb
Speak the truth and shame the devil. ~ Traditional Proverb
A gypsy only tells the truth once in his life but he regrets it afterwards. ~ Gypsy Proverb
Truth is God’s daughter. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Truth
I never saw any good that came of telling truth. ~ John Dryden
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found. ~ W. MacNeile Dixon
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~ Andre Gide
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Don’t keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. ~Author Unknown
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ~ Flannery O’Connor
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Great truths are portions of the soul of man. ~ James Russell Lowell
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~ Ramana Maharshi
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her. ~ Mark Akenside
Truth — there’s no such thing. ~ Tankred Dorst
Truth makes all things beautiful. ~ Edward Counsel
When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth will only make you unpopular. ~ Wolfgang Borchert
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth — however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say — must be told. ~ Al Gore
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light. ~ George Washington Quotes
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.~ Charles Dickens Quotes
Truth breeds hatred. ~ Bias of Priene
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.~ Napoleon Hill
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.~ Ann Landers
The truth won’t set us free – until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. ~ Margaret Heffernan
The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare
There is no god higher than truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. ~ George Eliot
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.~ Mark Twain
The truth … is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution. ~ J. K. Rowling
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.~ Oscar Wilde
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it. ~ Fanny Kemble
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. ~ Emile Zola
There is nothing as boring as the truth. ~ Charles Bukowski
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
Truth is a great flirt. ~ Franz Liszt
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~ Antonio Porchia
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.~ Niels Bohr
There must be repressed truth even in lies. ~ Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ~ James A. Garfield
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dōgen Zenji
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. ~ Bruce Lee
The truth sets you free. It’s a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It’s amazing. ~ Geri Halliwell
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ~ William Blake
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~ Martin H. Fischer
Truth has a way of waiting for us to come forth and confess the lies of our lives. It has a way of gazing at us until we can bear the look of truth no longer. ~ Macrina Wiederkehr
Truth is within ourselves.~ Robert Browning
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul. ~ Maxim Gorky
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy
Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now. ~ Emile Zola
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood. ~ Austin O’Malley
Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~ Shoseki
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. ~ William Cullen Bryant
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. ~ Werner Heisenberg
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.~ Albert Einstein Quotes
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.~ Julius Charles Hare
There is no religion higher than the truth. ~ Mark Frost
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. ~ Austin O’Malley
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ~ Stephen King
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. ~ Clarence Darrow
Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not. ~ Author Unknown
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.~ Mark Twain Quotes
The truth is never dangerous. Except when told. ~ Philip Moeller
Truth never hurts the teller. ~ Robert Browning
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.~ Elvis Presley
Facing the truth really will set you free. ~ Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ~ Mathew Arnold
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.~ Mark Twain
There is no truth. There is only perception. ~ Gustave Flaubert
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Not everything that’s true needs to be said. ~ Cassandra Clare