
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.Gautama Buddha
These 71 quotes on truth come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

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

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.Shimon Peres

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

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

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.Peter Singer

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 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 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

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.Wole Soyinka

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.Jawaharlal Nehru
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
Truth is powerful and it prevails.Sojourner Truth
Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin Fischer
Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.Benjamin Disraeli
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.Pema Chodron
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.Isaac Asimov
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.Gautama Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Gautama Buddha
I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.Confucius
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.Henry David Thoreau
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.Epictetus
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.Norman Schwarzkopf
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.Pearl Buck
Truth isn't all about what actually happens but more about how what has happened is interpreted.Byron Pulsifer
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.Mark Twain
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.Felix Adler
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.Joyce Brothers
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.Anais Nin
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.Benjamin Disraeli
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.Carl Jung
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.Blaise Pascal
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.Bruce Lee
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.Albert Einstein
Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.Matt Zotti
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have…Nikola Tesla
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.Max Planck
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.Abraham Lincoln
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the…Rachel Carson
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.Marcus Aurelius
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.John Junor
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you never can fly.Ivan Pavlov
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.Ivan Pavlov
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.Jules Verne
I am convinced my mother always spoke the truth — in the days of my childhood, fairies used to live in the moon.Jaun Elia
I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.Virat Kohli
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.Jagadish Chandra Bose
The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches it awkwardly.Jagadish Chandra Bose

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.Pablo Picasso

There is one truth that must be sought after first before you can go further and that truth is that you must take charge of your own life for you cannot lead a life of truth if you let someone else take responsibility for your thoughts or actions.Byron Pulsifer

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.Ida B. Wells

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.Wayne Dyer

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Mark Twain

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.Oscar Wilde

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone.Marcus Aurelius

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.Carl Jung

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.Friedrich Nietzsche