50 Short Truth Quotes

50 Short Truth Quotes

When in doubt tell the truth.
-Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. 
-Jesse Ventura

Truth is what stands the test of experience. 
-Albert Einstein

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. 
-Otto von Bismarck

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two. 
-Benjamin Franklin

Truth exists, only lies are invented. 
-Georges Braque

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. 
-Terry Pratchett

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. 
-Nadine Gordimer

A few honest men are better than numbers. 
-Oliver Cromwell

The truth is lived, not taught. 
-Hermann Hesse

Peace if possible, truth at all costs. 
-Martin Luther

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. 
-George Berkeley

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. 
-Benjamin Disraeli

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. 
-Samuel Butler

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
 -Henry David Thoreau

Truth is on the side of the oppressed. 
-Malcolm X

Live truth instead of professing it. 
-Elbert Hubbard

Time discovers truth. 
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no truth. There is only perception. 
-Gustave Flaubert

Truth is its own defense. 
-Phyllis Bottome

It does not require many words to speak the truth. 
-Chief Joseph

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. 
-George Eliot

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. 
-Terry Goodkind

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. 
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. 
-Mark Twain

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
-Charles Chaplin

You never find yourself until you face the truth. 
-Pearl Bailey

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
-Stephen King

Half a truth is often a great lie. 
-Benjamin Franklin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. 
-George R.R. Martin

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. 
-Denis Diderot

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. 
-Ann Landers

Tell truth, and shame the devil. 
-Jonathan Swift

Truth is the summit of being. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. 
-Pablo Picasso

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. 
-Emily Dickinson

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. 
-Vladimir Lenin

Truth is within ourselves. 
-Robert Browning

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth. 
-Robert Browning

No legacy is so rich as honesty. 
-William Shakespeare

Truth allows no choice. 
-Samuel Johnson

Truth has not such an urgent air. 
-Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

Anything more than the truth would be too much. 
-Robert Frost

There is no truth. Only points of view. 
-Edith Sitwell

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. 
-Antonio Porchia

Truth disappears with the telling of it. 
-Lawrence Durrell

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. 
-William Shakespeare

Honesty is the best policy. 
-Benjamin Franklin

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

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. 
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. 
-Hermann Hesse

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. 
-Walt Whitman