Favorite Inspiring Quotes - Truth
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King
In Search of Truth
Finally in this dull, secluded village to find him gone. In the ramshackle hut by the fire sat true.
He had never seen a more old and ugly women.
– You – Really?
Old, wrinkled hag nodded solemnly.
– Tell me, I have to tell the world? What kind of message to convey?
Old woman spat into the fire and said:
– Tell them that I am young and beautiful!
― Robert Tompkins
"The most important question is not "What is the truth?", but "Who decides what is the truth?""
― Anonymous
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire (The Age of Louis XIV)
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
“There's no comfort in the truth...”
― George Michael
“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain)
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“The lie’s feet are short, but it always comes first.”
― An old Bulgarian saying
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas (Twelve Steps to Happiness)
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes)