Sayings and Quotes About Truth. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
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.
Quotes about the truth
- As you shall sow, so shall you reap.
- “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident
- Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
- “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
- Better slip with foot than tongue.
- “We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama
- Diamond cuts diamond.
- Fine words butter no parsnips.
- Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. Michael Jackson
- Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it. Confucius
- He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin
- “The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.” – Adrienne C. Moore
- History repeats itself.
- It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it.
- “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare
- Just because everybody’s doing something, doesn’t mean it’s right.
Famous quotes about truth
- Liars need good memories.
- Play the part and you shall become.
- No sin is hidden to the soul.
- “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
- To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Yoda
- I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. Kahlil Gibran
- Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
- Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking.
- Practice what you preach.
- Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat.
- Take it straight from the horse’s mouth.
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha
- “There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.” – Alice Cary
- “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” – Malcolm X
- Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all. Muhammad Ali
- Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Elvis Presley
- Truth makes all things beautiful.
