
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.Swami Vivekananda
Truth has never been fashionable, only necessary. These 17 quotes about truth celebrate honesty — with the world and with yourself — even when it's uncomfortable. For the clear-eyed and the brave.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.Swami Vivekananda

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.Gautama Buddha

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.Rabindranath Tagore

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?Dogen

Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away.Hakuin Ekaku

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield

The course of true love never did run smooth.William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.John Keats

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Arthur Conan Doyle

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.Marcus Aurelius

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.Franz Kafka

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.Mark Twain