Truth Quotes and Proverbs

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.

Doc Childre, Self-Empowerment
Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people—not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.

Robert Kennedy
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

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

Dogen
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne.

Susan Sontag
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Albert Schweitzer
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now—always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Martin Luther King
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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Boris Pasternak
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

H.L. Mencken
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Proverb
Truth fears no trial.

Charles Colton
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.

John VII
And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free.

Unknown
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come an understanding of its inadequacy.

Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Robert M. Pirsig
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Harry Truman
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

Niels Bohr
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

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

David Hume
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Winston Churchill
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Spinoza
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.