Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Truth.

The repository contains 59 quotes in the category “Truth.”
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After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.

Unknown

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

Andy Rooney
1919 —     

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope
1688 — 1744

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf
1882 — 1941

Truth is a three-edged sword. One side is your truth, the other side is their truth, and the third side is the truth.

“Babylon 5”

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings
1818 — 1885

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller
1810 — 1850

There is no god higher than truth.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948

Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so much as the belief that you already know it.

Jon K. Hart

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill
1883 — 1970

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Dr. Johnson
1709 — 1784

Life is an open sea, the truth is the wind in our sails.

Talib Kweli
1975 —     

Truth is no road to fortune.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 — 1778

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates
470? — 399 B.C.

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Donald Sutherland
1935 —     

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth is usually the same old story.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1925 —     

Denial is the first access to the truth.

Natasha Turner
1974 —     

A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even has its shoes on.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

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